SN 2001T

IAUC 7581 informed that SN 2001T was discovered by Bejing team on Feb. 6.9 (mag 170:C) and appeared 0.2 mag brighter on 2 days later. The location is about 3" east and 12" south of the nucleus of the barred-spiral (SB(rs)bc) galaxy MCG -02-37-6. It lies between the bar and the southern arm. From the recession velocity of the host galaxy, the expected maximum of SN Ia is mag about 15.4 (vsnet-campaign-sn 153).