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Thanks to Tom Hoffelder for informing me about the awesome bright supernova SN 2012fr in far-southerly barred spiral galaxy NGC1365. I did a 30-minute total exposure on this in November, 2012, from my Chiefland Observatory (remotely) with the 14.5-inch RCOS and Apogee U16M camera when the galaxy was only 20 deg up! The SN appears about 12th magnitude which fits well with the predicted light curve in the discovery webpage below. It seems to be at max about now according to that curve. I want to visually observe this SN next week at CAV! Perhaps Raul will draw this galaxy with the SN! In the images above, the tiny galaxy to the upper right is PGC74714 at magn. 15.8.