SN 2002bw
SN 2002bw was discovered by the LOTOSS team at 17.4mag on images taken
on March 31 and April 1. PGC 59990 = the host galaxy of SN 2002bw is
a faint spiral galaxy, affected the Galactic extinction. The expected
maximum of typical SN Ia is mag about 17.5 in R (vsnet-campaign-sn
396). IAUC 7872 informed that this SN was of type Ia about 3 weeks
after maximum on Apr. 4.49 (vsnet-campaign-sn
406).