(Taken from Nasa's "Astronomy Picture of the Day")
The galaxy itself is ~75,000 light years across and resides in the Leo constellation. Like our galaxy, M95 (as it's called) is also a barred spiral galaxy. It's about 38000 klys from us and the center star forming ring is about 2000 lys across. Its declination is ~+11:42 and its right ascension is ~10:44, so now is a pretty decent time of the year to see it for astronomers, especially if you don't feel like staying up super late (which makes me think, that supernova had pretty convenient timing for being observed...).
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