[PeterM]

Thanks for posting this Gary,

The supernova mentioned in the article (SN2012gc) was discovered by Greg Bock and was the 47th discovery for the BOSS team, discovery image below. The initial classification was a type II so something has changed along the way.
Goes to show (yet again) that amateurs like you and I can and do have an impact on the science of Astronomy and this may indeed come many years after the initial discovery.
Kudos indeed to Greg Bock!