Electronic Telegram No. 2518 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA 2010im M. Ergon, Stockholm University; S. Benetti and F. Bufano, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio di Padova; A. Pastorello, Queen's University, Belfast; and J. Sollerman, Stockholm University, on behalf of a larger collaboration, report that a spectrogram of 2010im (cf. CBET 2484), obtained on Oct. 30.03 UT with the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope (+ EFOSC2; range 370-920 nm; resolution 2.8 nm) is consistent with that of a type-Ia supernova about 50 days old at a redshift of about 0.018. NOTE: These 'Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams' are sometimes superseded by text appearing later in the printed IAU Circulars. (C) Copyright 2010 CBAT 2010 October 31 (CBET 2518) Michael Rudenko