SN 2012fr was a supernova in the NGC 1365 galaxy that was discovered by Alain Klotz on October 27, 2012.

[1] When Klotz, an astrophysicist from Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie in France checked the galaxy images from TAROT la Silla observatory, the comparison of the night image of the galaxy with a reference image taken one month before clearly revealed the presence of a new star 3"W and 52"N from the nucleus of the galaxy.

On October 28 at 6:41 UTC, Emmanuel Conseil sent an email to Alain Klotz indicating he took an image of NGC 1365 using the robotic telescope Slooh robotic telescope.

[2] At 22:00 UTC, Michael Childress from Australian National University took the first spectrum, indicating that it is a type Ia supernova 11 days before the maximum of light.

The preliminary light curve indicates the supernova becoming bluer before reaching the maximum.