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Thanks, Pete, for the interesting comments. It is interesting to hear, again, from an old colleague.
If my previous experience with the many brightish IC galaxies in Pavo is anything to go by, data on this galaxy will be hard to come by.
I will have a look at how bright this SN might become (after I have got over yesterday's "data overload" from considering two dozen papers and a hundred images about M31 !!)
From the available redshift, this galaxy is going to be at least 50 percent further away than the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, so the SN at maximum probably won't burn out the observer's eyeball.
IC 4901 seems to be in a remarkably low density region of space, at least judging from the fact that few galaxies in Pavo share its redshift (and distance). Most of the bright galaxies in Pavo are in the supercluster at about twice the distance of IC 4901.
But the "Pavo" effect of scant available data means that there are actually a lot of galaxies in this constellation for which even simple redshift data is not available!
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