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Robin Leadbeater
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at the suggested 11Mpc distance could get much brighter

and then again perhaps not. After rising to mag 14.5 in just one day it is reported to be in rapid decline.
https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-374
Now classified as an a relatively rare type IIb, a stripped envelope core collapse supernova