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All active supernova over mag 17.0
NameMagTypeHost
2024adhf13.8Iaanonymous
AT2024aate14.1unknone
2024abfo14.2IINGC 1493
2024abnh14.4IaUGC 12763
AT2024adwe14.5unknone
2024abbv14.7IIUGCA 006
AT2024abok15.3unknone
2024xqt15.4Iaanonymous
2024aduf15.4IaNGC 5945
2024xal15.6IaMCG -3-10-42
AT2024adwa15.7unknone
AT2024adsu15.7unknone
2024qvh15.8*IIESO 138-G14
AT2024aboi16.0unkanonymous
AT2024aaag16.0*unknone
2024abba16.1Iaanonymous
AT2024aane16.2*unknone
2024yki16.2IIIC 5187
2024abtt16.3IaLEDA 955204
AT2024advw16.4unknone
AT2024acyh16.4unknone
AT2024abqc16.4unkKUG 1143+421
AT2024aayx16.4FeIIM31
AT2024zvz16.5*unknone
AT2024ztx16.5*unknone
AT2024abqs16.5unknone
2024abfl16.5IINGC 2146
AT2024ysy16.7*unknone
AT2024aczd16.7unkanonymous
2024zol16.7*Ianone
2024aaur16.7IaIC 574
AT2024zcu16.8*unkanonymous
AT2024yrv16.8*unknone
2024vim16.8*IaUGC 4108
2024abvb16.8Icnnone
2024aarv16.8Ia-91TESO 487-G32
2024wak16.9*Ianone

* - last observation is over one month old.  

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a star exploded.   This star exploded so violently that for a few weeks the star outshone its parent galaxy.   This type of explosion is called a Supernova.   The last one in our galaxy was 400 years ago, making us about 300 years overdue for the next one.   Here you will find a list of the supernovae we can see right now, as well as information about where they are in the sky, images of that object and how bright the explosion was at the last time we measured it.   The data on this page comes from TNS and ATEL circulars.   These web pages have brought you the latest in supernovae data and images since April 1997.   27 years and counting.

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News: Itagaki got another one! 2024aduf in NGC 5945 (morning object).   2024abfo is bright in NGC 1493.   2024abbv is fairly bright in the faint galaxy UGCA 006.   You will notice that the magnitudes of the brighter objects (< 17.0) are now updated more often.   For the year 2024, 20829 supernovae (1923 CBAT, 18904 unconfirmed, and 2 other sources) have been reported. (20575 last year).   The brightest SN of the year 2024 are 2024ggi (Mag 11.7), followed by 2024inv (Mag 12.1), 2024muv (Mag 12.7), 2024any (Mag 12.7), 2024gy (Mag 12.8).  

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2024aduf, TNS discovered 2024/12/09.876 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 5945 at R.A. = 15h29m45s.390, Decl. = +42°55'18".80
Located 4".1 east and 11".7 north of the center of NGC 5945 (Discovery image (mirror)) (Carlos Segarra image)
Mag 15.4:12/10, Type Ia (zhost=0.018323) (References: AstroNote 2024-365)

2024adhf (= GOTO24iqy) (= ZTF24abuvknk), TNS discovered 2024/12/01.269 by GOTO
Found in an anonymous galaxy at R.A. = 11h30m09s.313, Decl. = -13°44'55".62
Located 8".1 west and 5".9 south of the center of the host galaxy (Marie Newnham image) (Klaus Wenzel image)
Mag 13.8:12/8, Type Ia (z=0.012) (zhost=0.022500) (References: ZTF observations)

2024abnh (= ATLAS24qhn) (= ZTF24abtartn), TNS discovered 2024/11/20.186 by ATLAS
Found in UGC 12763 at R.A. = 23h44m47s.799, Decl. = +12°51'15".26
Located 2".0 west and 3".5 south of the center of UGC 12763 (Carlos Segarra image facebook) (Rafa Ferrando image facebook) (Achim Sucker image) (Carlos Segarra image)
Mag 14.4:12/9, Type Ia (z=0.013653) (References: ZTF observations)

2024abfo (= ATLAS24qew) (= PS24lge) (= GOTO24iha) (= MASTER OT J035725.61-461107.8), TNS discovered 2024/11/15.954 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 1493 at R.A. = 03h57m25s.622, Decl. = -46°11'07".67
Located 19".2 west and 91".0 north of the center of NGC 1493 (Eliot Herman image) (John Stevenson image) (John Stevenson image facebook color) (Eliot Herman image) (Fabio Feijo image)
Mag 14.2:12/5, Type II (zhost=0.003512) (References: ATEL 16920, ATEL 16922, ATEL 16924, AstroNote 2024-343, AstroNote 2024-342, AstroNote 2024-341)

2024abfl (= TCP J06180093+7822016), TNS discovered 2024/11/15.584 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 2146 at R.A. = 06h18m01s.030, Decl. = +78°22'01".20
Located 111".0 west and 35".9 north of the center of NGC 2146 (Discovery image)
Mag 16.5:11/17, Type II (zhost=0.002979) (References: CBAT TOCP; SN 2018zd, 2005V)
2024abfl images sub-page

2024abbv (= ATLAS24qei) (= GOTO24igj) (= Gaia24dlp) (= PS24lsu), TNS discovered 2024/11/13.865 by ATLAS
Found in UGCA 006 at R.A. = 00h34m08s.904, Decl. = -30°46'04".59
Located 27".5 west and 17".2 north of the center of UGCA 006 (LCOGT image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Marie Newnham image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Richard Hill image) (Jordi Gonzalez image facebook) (Laurent Vadrot image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Richard Hill image) (Carlos Segarra image)
Mag 14.7:12/9, Type II (z=0.005277) (References: ATEL 16909, AstroNote 2024-338, AstroNote 2024-337, AstroNote 2024-335, TNS, Gaia observations)

2024aaur (= ATLAS24qbg) (= GOTO24iei), TNS discovered 2024/11/09.338 by ATLAS
Found in IC 574 at R.A. = 09h54m27s.521, Decl. = -06°57'10".89
Located 7".4 east and 1".0 north of the center of IC 574 (Marie Newnham image)
Mag 16.7:11/9, Type Ia (zhost=0.020171) (References: AstroNote 2024-326)

2024xal (= PS24jhq) (= ZTF24abltbed) (= GOTO24gnj) (= BGEM J034401.36-142144.0) (= ATLAS24otw), TNS discovered 2024/09/30.513 by ATLAS
Found in MCG -3-10-42 at R.A. = 03h44m01s.354, Decl. = -14°21'44".25
Located 3".5 east and 12".6 south of the center of MCG -3-10-42 (Gianluca Masi image)
Mag 15.6:12/9 (14.1:10/17), Type Ia (z=0.0053) (zhost=0.005284) (References: ZTF observations)
2024xal images sub-page

AT2024wpa (= SNhunt467), TNS discovered 2024/09/12.246 by Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey, M. Mazzucato, and Mirco Villi
Found in MCG -1-60-5 at R.A. = 23h33m45s.792, Decl. = -03°04'49".08
Located 20".5 east and 1".0 north of the center of MCG -1-60-5 (Discovery image)
Mag 20.5:9/12, Type unknown (zhost=0.017429)

2024vsu, TNS discovered 2024/09/19.819 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 2830 at R.A. = 09h19m43s.220, Decl. = +33°44'02".90
Located 22".8 east and 14".1 south of the center of NGC 2830 (Katsumi Yoshimoto image) (Discovery image) (Carlos Segarra image) (Odd Trondal image) (Manfred Mrotzek image)
Mag 17.0:10/1, Type II (zhost=0.020367)

2024vim (= ZTF24abgvscf) (= Gaia24cpg), TNS discovered 2024/09/13.454 by Fink
Found in UGC 4108 at R.A. = 07h57m32s.030, Decl. = +59°05'07".98
Located 4".2 west and 5".7 north of the center of UGC 4108 (Odd Trondal image) (Grup Supernoves l'Astronòmica de Sabadell image) (Manfred Mrotzek image) (Richard Hill image)
Mag 16.8:10/21 (15.9:9/24), Type Ia (zhost=0.018946) (References: ZTF observations, Gaia observations)

2024vfo (= GOTO24fwv) (= ZTF24abhbrcs) (= ATLAS24oen), TNS discovered 2024/09/11.582 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in UGC 690 at R.A. = 01h07m27s.385, Decl. = +39°24'13".60
Located 62".7 west and 11".9 north of the center of UGC 690 (Discovery image)
Mag 18.3:10/17 (18.0:10/4), Type II (zhost=0.019577) (References: ZTF observations)
2024vfo images sub-page

2024uwq (= ATLAS24nyn) (= GOTO24fva) (= Gaia24cre), TNS discovered 2024/09/07.107 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 6902 at R.A. = 20h24m36s.768, Decl. = -43°40'10".13
Located 94".2 east and 57".3 south of the center of NGC 6902 (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Marie Newnham image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Kym Thalassoudis image)
Mag 17.3:12/1 (15.3:10/4), Type IIb (z=0.009) (zhost=0.009326) (Note: was type Ic-BL) (References: AstroNote 2024-248, Gaia observations)

2024uua (= ZTF24abfxhta) (= ATLAS24nyf) (= GOTO24fyp), TNS discovered 2024/09/06.336 by ALeRCE
Found in an LEDA 1001093 at R.A. = 00h04m17s.074, Decl. = -08°38'46".09
Located 1".5 east and 15".3 south of the center of LEDA 1001093 (Marie Newnham image) (Grup Supernoves l'Astronòmica de Sabadell image) (Fabio Feijo image)
Mag 17.8:10/20 (16.2:9/23), Type Ia (z=0.03) (zhost=0.028200) (References: ZTF observations)

2024qvh (= GOTO24egb) (= ATLAS24mkt) (= Gaia24dco), TNS discovered 2024/08/01.530 by GOTO
Found in ESO 138-G14 at R.A. = 17h06m59s.019, Decl. = -62°05'09".99
Located 1".4 west and 11".7 south of the center of ESO 138-G14 (Marie Newnham image) (John Stevenson image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Achim Sucker image)
Mag 15.8:10/26 (14.1:8/2), Type II (z=0.005) (zhost=0.005030) (References: Gaia observations)

2024pxg (= DLT24t) (= Gaia24bzi) (= BGEM J165246.37-591326.7) (= ATLAS24lqn) (= GOTO24dst), TNS discovered 2024/07/23.133 by DLT40
Found in NGC 6221 at R.A. = 16h52m46s.420, Decl. = -59°13'26".94
Located 2".6 east and 19".8 south of the center of NGC 6221 (Eliot Herman image) (Eliot Herman image) (John Stevenson image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Marie Newnham image) (J. Camarasa image) (Achim Sucker image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Klemens Waldhör image)
Mag 15.4:10/3 (14.6:7/26), Type II (zhost=0.004999) (References: Gaia observations; SN 1990W)

AT2016blu (= Gaia16ada) (= ZTF17aaapufz) (= ATLAS18mmq) (= PS22eva) (= XM13MZ) (= AT2022lia) (= MSOSSP_10) (= PSN J12355230+2755559) (= TCP J12355227+2755555), CBET 2976 discovered 2012/01/11.250 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search
Found in NGC 4559 at R.A. = 12h35m52s.30, Decl. = +27°55'55".9
Located 74" west and 100" south of the center of NGC 4559 (Discovery image)
Mag 18.5:7/15/2024 (15.9:4/21/2021), Type LBV (z=0.003) (References: ATEL 3865, 6303, 14460, 14638, 15808, 16115, VSnet observations, TNS, ZTF observations, Gaia observations, TNS 2022lia; SN 1941A)
LBV in NGC 4559 images sub-page

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Do you have a Supernova image you are willing to share with others? Please tell me about it! Don't be a data miser, share your data with others! I prefer to link to images already at a location on the web, but if you send me an image (jpeg or gif preferred) I will post and index it.

I plan to report only "bright" Supernova (above mag 17.5) on this page. Note that you are going to need a big telescope to find most of these things, for instance, a "Mag 14" SN probably won't be visible to the eye in anything less than a 10" telescope. A CCD, however, can often detect a Mag 14 object with a much smaller objective. Those SN which are easily findable by amateurs (above mag 14.0) will be in red.

The format is as follows:

If possible I will create an icon for every bright supernova. This icon will be black on a white background and mirror imaged left to right so that North is up and East is left. The exception being a color image, which will have he same orientation. All icons will be less than 100x100 pixels in size so that they load quickly.

Supernovae are officially designated in a scheme that includes the year followed (without a space) by one upper-case or two to four lower-case letters indicating the order of discovery, starting with A, B., ... Z, then aa, ab, ac, ..., az, ba, bb, ... zy, zz, aaa, aab, aac, ... aaz, aba, abb, abc, ... abz, ... Furthermore, due to politics, several supernova teams demand that their own survey designations be used instead of the standard system.

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