CCD observations of September 2002 observer: Berto Monard MLF, Pretoria, South Africa Bronberg observatory / CBA Pretoria location: -25 º 54' 48", 28º 26' 44"E, altitude 1590m instrumentation: LX200 12" f/4.2 with ST-7E, unfiltered conditions: clear reported CR magnitudes result from differential photometry to non-red comparison stars with R magnitudes (directly or derived) from published photometric data or traceable to UCAC1 (comparison stars selected from USNO-A2.0 data on the basis of non-red colour and reliability of the data). SN 2002fk 020912.110 <180CR MLF * SN 2002fk 020919.848 145CR MLF SN 2002fk 020920.095 144CR MLF ** * the image was made only a few minutes before that of NGC2642, which showed the presence of what is now SN 2002fj. The image of NGC 1309 did not show any trace of SN 2002fk yet. This prediscovery image (.fts) is available for analysis. ** image is also available Regards, Berto Monard Bronberg Observatory / CBA Pretoria