Comment on SN.... : A.V.Filippenko and R.Chornock argue that this SN as well as 2000ch, 2001ac and 2002kg might not be genuine supernovae, but rather superoutbursts of luminous variable stars. See IAU Circ. 8051, 2003
Comment on Gal... : N 3198
Host Galaxy information (for SNe discovered since January 2015):