SN 2001dm

Accoring to IAUC 7679, the discovery of SN 2001dm was made on Aug 7.5 when the object was mag about 15.4C. The position is about 7" due west of the nucleus of the spiral galaxy NGC 749. This galaxy has bright bulge and rather faint arm structure, and the SN superimposed on the bulge. The expected maximum of typical SN Ia on this galaxy is around 15.5 mag (vsnet-campaign-sn 214).