Just been checking up on the brightness progress of SN2012aw, and see that at the bright supernovae page:
http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/
the top of the tree has a 10.7 magnitude nova in the LMC. I think unconfirmed as yet, but apparently an He/N class nova, and will probably fade within a few weeks, but worth a look? I don't know how common LMC novae are, so apologies if this is a run-of-the-mill event!