SN 2001bn : not a supernova, but a Galactic blue variable
According to IAUC 7624, a supernova candidate SN 2001bn was
discovered by the QUEST collaboration. IAUC 7640 tells that
spectroscopy revealed strong narrow Balmer absorption lines at
z=0, and concluded it is a Galactic blue variable
(vsnet-campaign 958,
vsnet-campaign-dn 871).
A. Henden reported that the brightness of this possible SN
remained at about V=19.7mag, which supports it is not a genuine SN
(vsnet-campaign 981).