[Robby]

Here is some more detailed info we got from a local...

The following note from IAUC 8482. Mati Morel (who does charts for variable
star observers) notes that NGC 4945 is only six times more distant than M31.
Hence the SN could reach magnitude 10.
Alan

POSSIBLE SUPERNOVA IN NGC 4945
C. Jacques and E. Pimentel, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, report
their discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 12.8) on unfiltered
CCD images taken on Feb. 8.22 and 10.23 UT with a 0.30-m Schmidt-
Cassegrain reflector in the course of the CEAMIG/REA Supernovae
Search. The new object is located at R.A. = 13h04m44s.06, Decl. =
-49o33'59".8 (equinox 2000.0), which is 407" west and 351" south of
the center of NGC 4945, but which also lies in a rather rich area
of foreground Milky Way stars in Centaurus. Nothing in visible on
a CCD image taken by Jacques on 2004 June 20.93 (limiting mag 18.5)
or on a red Digitized Sky Survey plate from 1976.