SN 2002ar
SN 2002ar appeared in the compact group of galaxies HCG 57. The host
barred-spiral galaxy NGC 3746 is the brightest one in this group. The
SN is embedded in the bulge, quite near from the nucleus. The discovery
magnitude (16.5mag) is near to the expected maximum for typical SN Ia
(vsnet-campaign-sn 341). According to IAUC 7835, its spectrum showed that
this supernova was of type Ia near maximum (vsnet-campaign-sn
345).