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      Special Notice from the AAVSO
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          Richard C.S. Kinne
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          rkinne at aavso.org
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        2012-01-21T20:28:09
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          In IAU Central Bureau Electronic Telegram 2974 (Daniel W. E. Green,
ed.), B. Moore, J. Newton, and T. Puckett report the discovery of 
an apparent supernova in the irregular galaxay NGC 3239 at 
unfiltered magnitude 14.6 taken with a 0.40-m reflector at Portal, 
AZ, on 2012 Jan. 7.3869 UT in the course of the Puckett Observatory 
Supernova Search. SN 2012A was confirmed by Puckett at magnitude
14.4 on Jan. 8.3352; nothing is visible down to magnitude 19.0 on 
his images from 2011 Dec. 29. The discoverers have posted an image 
at URL http://www.possdata.com/PSNJ10250739+1709146.jpg.  The 
variable was named PSN J10250739+1709146 when it was posted at the 
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage.

Coordinates: R.A. 10 25 07.39, Decl. +17 09 14.6 (equinox 2000.0)
which is 25&quot; east and 16&quot; south of the center of NGC 3239.

SN 2012A has been designated a Type-II supernova discovered a few 
days before maximum, according to spectroscopy by T. Pursimo 
(reported by V. Stanishev, Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofisica, 
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, et al.), obtained on 2012 Jan. 
10.145 UT (CBET 2974); by Y. Cao, California Institute of 
Technology, M. M. Kasliwal, Observatories of the Carnegie 
Institution for Science and Princeton University, G. Wallerstein 
and A. Ritchey, University of Washington, D. A. Howell, Las Cumbres 
Observatory Global Telescope and University of California at Santa 
Barbara, et al., obtained on 2012 Jan. 10.275 UT (CBET 2975, 
Daniel W. E. Green, ed.); and by Rupak Roy, Aryabhatta Research 
Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital, and Sayan 
Chakraborti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, et 
al., obtained on 2012 Jan. 10 (CBET 2975).

Additional observations reported on CBET 2974 by F. Luppi and Luca 
Buzzi (Varese, Italy), T. Yusa (Osaki, Japan), Hidetaka Sato 
(Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan), Robert Koff (Bennett, CO), Joseph 
Brimacombe (Cairns, Australia), and Gyula M. Szabo (MTA Konkoly 
Observatory, Piszkesteto, Hungary), and to the AAVSO by Michael 
Simonsen (Imlay City, MI), Klaus Wenzel (Grossostheim, Germany), 
Gustav Holmberg (Lund, Sweden), Frank Melillo (New York), Richard 
Tyson (Freeport, NY), Philip Steffey (Daytona Beach, FL), 
Massimiliano Martignoni (Magnago, Italy), and Robert Wahlstrom 
(Alingsas, Sweden) indicate that SN 2012A has brightened to 
13.725 V as of 2012 Jan 20.2699 UT.

Finder charts may be created using VSP (http://www.aavso.org/vsp).
Observations should be reported to the AAVSO International Database 
using the name SN 2012A.

Congratulations to B. Moore, J. Newton, and T. Puckett on their 
discovery!

This AAVSO Special Notice was compiled by Elizabeth O. Waagen.
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