2011CBET.2827....2T

L. Tomasella, S. Valenti, P. Ochner, S. Benetti, and E. Cappellaro, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica; and A. Pastorello, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita di Padova, on behalf of a larger collaboration, report that a spectrogram (range 360-810 nm; resolution 2.2 nm) of PSN J02082141+4129123 = SN 2011fu, obtained on Sept. 23.84 UT with the Ekar-Copernico 1.82-m telescope (+ AFOSC), shows it to be a young type-II supernova, a few days after explosion. The spectrum shows a blue continuum with superimposed weak H and He I 587.6-nm lines.