This is a picture of the SN in NGC 3627. The field of view in this R-band image is about 5 arcminutes on a side, and the position of SN 1997bs is marked with a box.
North is to the left, east is down.
KAIT automatically detected this candidate during the night of April 14, 1997. It re-scheduled a confirmation image about 90 minutes later, which also shows the candidate. The next day, Chien Peng, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, noticed the candidate during his scan of the KAIT data and alerted the Berkeley team. The picture above shows five local comparison stars, marked with letters. On April 16 UT, Alex Filippenko, Aaron Barth and A. M. Gilbert acquired a spectrum of the object with the Lick 3-m Shane reflector.