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All active supernova over mag 17.0
NameMagTypeHost
2024afyu14.7IIb2MFGC 13744
2025efc15.0IaESO 565-G19
2025fvw15.1IaNGC 5957
AT2025ggm15.5unkPGC1 128341
2025efa15.6IaESO 443-G16
2025bco15.8IILEDA 1142503
AT2025fwg16.0unknone
AT2025ehi16.0unknone
AT2025gnb16.2unknone
2025evw16.2Ianone
2025bvm16.2IaNGC 4156
2025aue16.2*Ia-91TUGC 3007
AT2025fpv16.4unkNGC 3377
2025erh16.4IaLEDA 2155454
AT2025eps16.5unknone
2025gj16.5IaNGC 2986
2025baq16.5*Ia-02cxNGC 5602
2024adhf16.5*Iaanonymous
AT2025bd16.6*unknone
2025byq16.6Ianone
2025cuf16.7IaCGCG 180-060
2025bol16.7Ianone
AT2025fqb16.8unkNGC 4754
AT2025asm16.8*unknone
AT2016blu16.8LBVNGC 4559
2025iv16.8*IcCGCG 461-46
2025dzm16.8IILEDA 1789388
2025djn16.8Ianone
AT2025brj16.9*unkESO 139-G12
2024abfl16.9*IINGC 2146

* - 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: LBV 2000ch is back at Mag 19. 2025gj is bright in NGC 2986 2025X was removed by TNS and added the the entry for 2022mop, which is at the same coordinates, It has now been classifed as a type IIn.   TNS 2.0 is up, slightly modified format.   Shinichi Ono found 2024aeee in NGC 2523 which is a Type II on the rise.   2024aecx in NGC 3521 is a bright type Ic (was IIb).   Itagaki got another one! 2024aduf in NGC 5945 (morning object).   2024abfo is bright in NGC 1493.   For the year 2025, 5213 supernovae (426 CBAT, 4787 unconfirmed, and 0 other sources) have been reported. (23820 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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2025fvw (= ZTF25aaktqzg) (= GOTO25bhh) (= PS25avu) (= ATLAS25dcd), TNS discovered 2025/03/26.799 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 5957 at R.A. = 15h35m25s.783, Decl. = +12°03'27".80
Located 37".0 east and 37".1 north of the center of NGC 5957 (Discovery image) (Manfred Mrotzek image) (Manfred Mrotzek image) (Rolando Ligustri image facebook, color) (Carlos Segarra image facebook) (Rafel Ferrando image facebook, color)
Mag 15.1:3/30, Type Ia (z=0.006) (zhost=0.006051) (References: ZTF observations)

2025efc (= ATLAS25cqk) (= ZTF25aaiwalj), TNS discovered 2025/03/12.153 by ATLAS
Found in ESO 565-G19 at R.A. = 09h34m43s.542, Decl. = -21°55'51".82
Located 0".4 west and 12".0 south of the center ESO 565-G19 (Discovery image) (Marie Newnham image) (Fabio Feijo image)
Mag 15.0:3/27, Type Ia (zhost=0.016285) (References: AstroNote 2025-87, ZTF observations)

2025efa (= ATLAS25cqi), TNS discovered 2025/03/12.204 by ATLAS
Found in ESO 443-G16 at R.A. = 12h57m28s.310, Decl. = -28°12'06".90
Located 6".2 west and 10".7 north of the center ESO 443-G16 (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Marie Newnham image) (Fabio Feijo image)
Mag 15.6:3/24, Type Ia (z=0.016221) (References: AstroNote 2025-85)

2025coe (= ATLAS25caa) (= ZTF25aahsvoc), TNS discovered 2025/02/24.634 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 3277 at R.A. = 10h33m07s.950, Decl. = +28°26'13".10
Located 164".8 east and 269".3 south of the center of NGC 3277 (Discovery image)
Mag 17.7:3/26 (14.6:3/7), Type Ib-Ca-rich (z=0.004720) (References: ZTF observations)
2025coe images sub-page

2025bvm (= ATLAS25bqt) (= ZTF25aafwbhf), TNS discovered 2025/02/17.479 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 4156 at R.A. = 12h10m48s.762, Decl. = +39°28'27".54
Located 9".3 west and 5".5 north of the center of NGC 4156 (Odd Trondal image) (Marie Newnham image)
Mag 16.2:3/10, Type Ia (zhost=0.022617) (References: AstroNote 2025-75, AstroNote 2025-60, ZTF observations; SN 1974A)

2025aue (= PSP25D) (= ZTF25aaduxhj), TNS discovered 2025/02/03.651 by ATLAS
Found in UGC 3007 at R.A. = 04h18m30s.394, Decl. = +33°46'15".97
Located 2".1 east and 10".6 south of the center of UGC 3007 (Carlos Segarra image) (Rafael Ferrando image facebook) (Richard Hill image) (Achim Sucker image) (Manfred Mrotzek image)
Mag 16.2:3/1 (15.5:2/14), Type Ia-91T (z=0.019) (zhost=0.018783) (References: ZTF observations)

2025qe (= ZTF25aacerkv), TNS discovered 2025/01/18.262 by ATLAS
Found in IC 529 at R.A. = 09h18m28s.190, Decl. = +73°45'44".89
Located 19".1 west and 11".3 north of the center of IC 529 (Eliot Herman image) (J. D. image facebook) (Odd Trondal image) (Carlos Segarra image) (Andy Cason image) (Amar Sharma image facebook) (Klemens Waldhör image) (Giancarlo Cortini image) (Rafael Ferrando image facebook color) (Gianluca Masi image) (Marie Newnham image) (Giancarlo Cortini image) (Nigel Barns image) (Manfred Mrotzek image)
Mag 17.4:2/28 (15.7:1/28), Type Ia-02cx (z=0.0075) (zhost=0.007532) (References: ZTF observations)

2025oq (= GOTO25io) (= ZTF25aaccmjq) (= ATLAS25als) (= BGEM J090438.41+182800.2), TNS discovered 2025/01/17.024 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 2744 at R.A. = 09h04m38s.432, Decl. = +18°28'00".03
Located 10".6 west and 10".6 north of the center of NGC 2744 (Fabio Feijo image)
Mag 17.1:2/28 (14.7:1/26), Type Ic-BL (z=0.011330) (References: AstroNote 2025-46, AstroNote 2025-37, TNS, ZTF observations)
2025oq images sub-page

AT2025pk (= PSST-XL2025A), TNS discovered 2025/01/17.426 by Yiming Mao
Found in NGC 615 at R.A. = 01h35m07s.600, Decl. = -07°19'19".10
Located 28".3 east and 65".9 north of the center of NGC 615 (Discovery image)
Mag 17.0:1/17, Type unknown

2025mb (= ATLAS25akl), TNS discovered 2025/01/15.042 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 150 at R.A. = 00h34m16s.885, Decl. = -27°48'05".26
Located 2".4 west and 16".7 north of the center of NGC 150 (Eliot Herman image) (Eliot Herman image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Marie Newnham image)
Mag 14.4:1/31, Type Ia (z=0.005) (zhost=0.005294) (References: AstroNote 2025-23; SN 1990K)

2025gj (= DLT25a) (= ZTF25aabmhly) (= ATLAS25aim) (= GOTO25gp), TNS discovered 2025/01/08.256 by DLT40
Found in NGC 2986 at R.A. = 09h44m20s.255, Decl. = -21°16'22".62
Located 59".2 east and 18".5 north of the center of NGC 2986 (Eliot Herman image)
Mag 16.5:3/8 (13.7:1/25), Type Ia (z=0.0077) (zhost=0.007679) (References: ZTF observations; SN 1999gh)
2025gj images sub-page

2025dr (= ATLAS25agc) (= ZTF25aabnwba), TNS discovered 2025/01/06.267 by ATLAS
Found in UGC 670 at R.A. = 01h06m46s.083, Decl. = +75°36'12".11
Located 15".7 west and 10".8 north of the center of UGC 670 (Giancarlo Cortini image) (Grup Supernoves l'Astronòmica de Sabadell image) (Wolfgang Kreiss image) (Marie Newnham image) (Wolfgang Kreiss image) (Manfred Mrotzek image)
Mag 17.0:2/18 (16.1:1/20), Type Ia (zhost=0.015948) (References: ZTF observations)

2025X (= PSN J23305120-0256341) (= Gaia25aaf), TNS discovered 2024/12/31.008 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in IC 1496 at R.A. = 23h30m51s.217, Decl. = -02°56'33".90
Located 34".5 west and 30".7 south of the center of IC 1496 (Discovery image) (Toshihide Noguchi image) (Odd Trondal image) (Marie Newnham image)
Mag 16.5:1/14, Type IIn (zhost=0.017219) (Note: TNS entry merged with 2022mop, which was a type Ia) (References: CBAT TOCP, Gaia observations; SN 2022mop; 2005co)

2024afyu (= ZTF24abzxalv) (= GOTO25na) (= ATLAS25axv), TNS discovered 2024/12/29.573 by Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)
Found in 2MFGC 13744 at R.A. = 17h13m43s.052, Decl. = +07°37'30".92
Located 8".5 east and 6".0 north of the center of 2MFGC 13744 (Klaus Wenzel image) (Stig Foss image)
Mag 14.7:3/25, Type IIb (z=0.01) (z=0.012000) (References: ZTF observations)

AT2024aevn (= JCMH667), TNS discovered 2024/12/24.152 by Jean-Claude Merlin
Found in NGC 1515 at R.A. = 04h04m02s.510, Decl. = -54°06'00".30
Located 1".4 west and 0".3 north of the center of NGC 1515 (Discovery image) (Discovery image marked) (John Stevenson image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Jean-Claude Merlin image) (Jean-Claude Merlin image) (Jean-Claude Merlin image) (Jean-Claude Merlin image) (Jean-Claude Merlin image) (Giuseppe Pappa image)
Mag 14.4:12/31 (13.7:12/24), Type unknown (zhost=0.003920)

2024aeee (= GOTO24jbu) (= Gaia24dth) (= ZTF24abyatjx), TNS discovered 2024/12/17.645 by Shinichi Ono
Found in NGC 2523 at R.A. = 08h14m50s.929, Decl. = +73°34'43".94
Located 37".7 west and 2".0 north of the center of NGC 2523 (Toshihide Noguchi image)
Mag 17.2:2/19 (15.3:12/29), Type II (z=0.0116) (zhost=0.011578) (References: Gaia observations, ZTF observations)
2024aeee images sub-page

2024aecx (= ATLAS24rkq) (= PS24msg) (= ZTF24abyaspl), TNS discovered 2024/12/16.557 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 3521 at R.A. = 11h05m49s.552, Decl. = -00°02'05".44
Located 14".5 east and 3".7 north of the center of NGC 3521 (Balazs Benei image color)
Mag 16.4:1/20 (13.9:1/5), Type Ic (zhost=0.002665) (References: AstroNote 2024-371, 2024-372, 2024-374, ZTF observations)
2024aecx images sub-page

2024aeds, TNS discovered 2024/12/16.688 by Giancarlo Cortini
Found in IC 1231 at R.A. = 16h46m58s.880, Decl. = +58°25'58".61
Located 1".1 west and 35".4 north of the center of IC 1231 (Giancarlo Cortini image Discovery) (Giancarlo Cortini image) (Carlos Segarra image (facebook mirror)) (Toshihide Noguchi image)
Mag 17.0:12/21, Type II (zhost=0.017522)

2024advj (= ATLAS24riq) (= ZTF24abxpkhb) (= Gaia24dqw), TNS discovered 2024/12/11.191 by ATLAS
Found in UGC 604 at R.A. = 00h58m33s.390, Decl. = +45°00'40".72
Located 21".0 west and 21".5 north of the center of UGC 604 (Carlos Segarra image)
Mag 17.5:1/22 (15.3:12/20), Type II (z=0.017409) (References: AstroNote 2024-366, ZTF observations, Gaia observations)
2024advj images sub-page

2024aduf (= Gaia24drn) (= ZTF24abxxltd), TNS discovered 2024/12/09.876 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 5945 at R.A. = 15h29m45s.395, Decl. = +42°55'19".09
Located 4".1 east and 11".7 north of the center of NGC 5945 (Discovery image (mirror)) (Carlos Segarra image) (Toshihide Noguchi image) (Achim Sucker image) (Klaus Wenzel image) (Master image) (Carlos Segarra image facebook) (Odd Trondal image) (Klaus Wenzel image)
Mag 18.8:1/20 (15.4:12/10), Type Ia (zhost=0.018323) (References: AstroNote 2024-365, Gaia observations, ZTF observations)

2024adjp (= ZTF24abvgtut) (= Gaia25aaw), TNS discovered 2024/12/03.091 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 7543 at R.A. = 23h14m33s.870, Decl. = +28°19'46".99
Located 8".5 west and 9".4 north of the center of NGC 7543 (Odd Trondal image) (Stig Foss image) (Rafael Benavides image) (Manfred Mrotzek image)
Mag 17.0:1/15 (16.0:12/19), Type Ia (zhost=0.023016) (References: ZTF observations, Gaia observations)

2024adhf (= GOTO24iqy) (= ZTF24abuvknk) (= Gaia25aao) (= ATLAS24rjd), TNS discovered 2024/12/01.269 by GOTO
Found in an anonymous galaxy at R.A. = 11h30m09s.314, Decl. = -13°44'55".61
Located 8".1 west and 5".9 south of the center of the host galaxy (Marie Newnham image) (Klaus Wenzel image) (Achim Sucker image)
Mag 16.5:2/26 (13.4:12/11), Type Ia (z=0.012) (zhost=0.022500) (References: ZTF observations, AstroNote 2025-86, Gaia observations)

2024abup (= ATLAS24qlf) (= Gaia24dsy), TNS discovered 2024/11/22.351 by ATLAS
Found in NGC 681 at R.A. = 01h49m11s.320, Decl. = -10°25'27".44
Located 7".1 east and 7".1 north of the center of NGC 681 (Toshihide Noguchi image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (A Sq image) (Gregor Krannich image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Marie Newnham image) (Rafael Benavides image) (Ravael Benavides image facebook)
Mag 16.6:12/28 (15.5:12/2), Type Ic-BL (zhost=0.005861) (References: AstroNote 2024-347, Gaia observations)

2024abnh (= ATLAS24qhn) (= ZTF24abtartn) (= Gaia25aag), 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)
Mag 16.4:1/15 (14.4:12/9), Type Ia (z=0.013653) (References: ZTF observations, Gaia observations)
2024abnh images sub-page

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) (Klemens Waldhör image) (Marie Newnham image) (Fabio Feijo image) (Kym Thalassoudis image) (Richard Hill image)
Mag 15.0:12/30 (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) (= ATLAS24qfn) (= GOTO24ilr) (= ZTF24abtczty) (= Gaia25aav), TNS discovered 2024/11/15.584 by Koichi Itagaki
Found in NGC 2146 at R.A. = 06h18m01s.141, Decl. = +78°22'01".52
Located 111".0 west and 35".9 north of the center of NGC 2146 (Discovery image)
Mag 16.9:2/17 (16.5:11/17), Type II (zhost=0.002979) (References: CBAT TOCP, ZTF observations, Gaia observations; 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)
Mag 15.5:1/2 (14.7:12/9), Type II (z=0.005277) (References: ATEL 17006, ATEL 16909, AstroNote 2024-338, AstroNote 2024-337, AstroNote 2024-335, TNS, Gaia observations)
2024abbv images sub-page

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 17.8:1/19 (14.1:10/17), Type Ia (z=0.0053) (zhost=0.005284) (References: ZTF observations)
2024xal images sub-page

2024vsu (= ATLAS24ooz) (= GOTO24gpg) (= ZTF24abihpmn) (= PS24lsw), 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) (Ken Mascola image facebook)
Mag 20.3:1/4 (17.0:10/1), Type II (zhost=0.020367) (References: ZTF observations)

2000ch (= Nova NGC 3432) (= AT2019bro) (= PSN J10524126+3640086) (= TCP J10524126+3640086) (= TCP J10524126+3640089) (= TCP J10524130+3640087) (= TCP J10524124+3640084) IAUC 7415 discovered 2000/05/03.2 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search
Found in NGC 3432 at R.A. = 10h52m41s.40, Decl. = +36°40'08".5
Located 123" east and 180" north of the center of NGC 3432
Mag 19.0:2/4/2025 (17.6:2/25/2019), Type LBV (z=0.002) (References: ATEL 4891, IAUC 7417, 7419, 7421, CBAT TOCP, CBAT TOCP, CBAT TOCP CBAT TOCP)
2000ch images sub-page

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 16.8:3/5/2025 (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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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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