Supernova 2011gq = Psn J21422844-1606305

Report the discovery of an apparent supernova in public images from the Mount Lemmon Survey. SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2011gq Sep. 26.24 21 42 28.44 -16 06 30.5 19.2 9".4 W, 7".6 N This variable was designated PSN J21422844-1606305 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011gq based on the spectroscopic report below. Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia, reports position end figures 28s.38, 30".5 from an unfiltered CCD image taken on Sept. 27.265 UT (image at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6191438300/). Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011gq: Sept. 28.870, 19.2 (Federica Luppi and Luca Buzzi, Varese, Italy, 0.38-m f/6.8 reflector; position end figures 28s.41, 30".0; CMC-14 catalogue reference stars; image posted at URL http://www.astrogeo.va.it/pub/TOCP/PSN_P902335.jpg); 29.214, 19.8 (Brimacombe; image posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6196354104/). L. Magill and R. Kotak, Queen's University, Belfast, report that an optical spectrogram (range 350-900 nm) of PSN J21422844-1606305 = SN 2011gq was obtained at the Nordic Optical Telescope (+ ALFOSC) by M. B. Nielsen on Sept. 28.85 UT. After cross-correlated with a library of supernova spectra using the "Supernova Identification" code (SNID; Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024), the best fit was with a normal type-Ia supernova and similar to SN 1998aq at an epoch of 66 days (Branch et al. 2003, A.J. 126, 1489). Fitting with SNID yields a redshift of 0.053....