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The Catalina Sky Survey recently released a database of millions of stars observed over their course of monitoring the sky for seven years.

During a the course of searching for variables via SNHunt which as a project based upon the Catalina Sky Survey (or Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey) I have seen a number of variables. Many are probably previously unknown ones.

Above is a screen capture for one of the variables seen. This turns out to be the known variable HX Com. I immediately recognized the light-curve as resembling an RR Lyrae variable. Sure enough, HX Com is classified as an RR Lyrae variable. However, I could not find any mention of its period. According to the CSS data, the most likely period is 0.617447 days.

The website for the data release is nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/DataRelease/

comparison stars:
APASS 197.295543-15.501531 = 14.299V
APASS 197.310277-15.587042 = 15.321V

Imaged this around 4:30AM. Frost had started forming on the corrector plate.

Comparison stars:
SDSS J124706.66-100429.2 = 15.67V
SDSS J124730.00-100447.2 = 16.34V

Finally was able to image this supernova that could have been my discovery. I had found it in the CRTS SNHunt images nearly a year ago and some six months prior to Berto Monard's official discovery. Unfortunately, it got misclassified as a variable QSO shining through the galaxy. Thus it was never officially reported. This is unfortunate as this supernova was not studied for that six months until it underwent an outburst of some two to three magnitudes at Monard's discovery.

Comparison stars:
APASS 193.976996-29.529925 = 16.472V
APASS 193.992144-29.617615 = 16.338V

The supernova has faded so much it is difficult to identify. Believe I have the correct object.