Michael's Supernova Page

Here's my current list of all recent SNe (mostly post-1988). I keep it up-to-date as new SNe are announced in IAU Circulars, so it will be more recent than the date of this HTML document you are reading now. You may also check out the more detailed list of recent SNe at the CBAT. There's another good list at the Padova-Asiago Supernova Group page.

1997 was a record year for SNe -- there were 163 reported, enough to wrap around the alphabet more than six times! You can see that the number of reported SNe has been increasing lately:

Perhaps you'd be interested in distant supernovae only. This is a list of supernovae discovered in systematic searches for events at z > 0.2. home page. With two big groups going after the distant events, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team (no WWW page, as far as I know), the distant supernovae are now making up a significant fraction of all those reported in 1997:

You may also read a short description of supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy observed by humans in the past 2000 years.

You may also want to visit other sites with information about SNe:

• The KAIT Gallery of supernova images
• Marcos Montes' list of Supernova material on the WWW. Lots and lots of references, including those listed below. A great place to start.
• List of Supernova in NGC and IC galaxies, recent SNe which might still be visible. Kept by David Bishop, dbishop@vhdl.org.
• Padova-Asiago Supernova Group page which includes a list of all SNe discovered back to 1885, finding charts and sequences, and more.
• Home page of the Supernovae Research Group at Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow, Russia. They keep a much more detailed catalog of supernovae than I do, with morphological types and magnitudes of host galaxies, peak magnitudes of supernovae, and more.
• International Supernovae Network, based in Italy. This page contains notes and images on recent SN candidates, so it's a good place to go if you want to help confirm new supernovae!
• Mr. Galaxy's Supernova site describes the effort by a group of amateur astronomers to discover supernovae.
• Dave Bishop's Supernovae site, sponsored by the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Sciences.
• The International Early Supernova Alert Page contains information on a plan to monitor a number of neutrino detectors in order to detect supernovae which occur in our own Milky Way or Magellanic clouds.
• Tool for checking for minor planets near suspected SN. Thanks to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams for providing this service.
• Site Aude des Supernovae. Observations of bright supernovae by French amateur astronomers.
• la página WEB del GRUPO DE BUSQUEDA DE SUPERNOVAS M1 The home page of the Spanish M1 group, who study novae, supernovae and other variable objects.
• Enrico Prosperi's Supernovae Page which contains images and even animations of recent events.
• The Nearby Galaxies Supernova Search uses the Kitt Peak 0.9m telescope with a wide-field camera to search for nearby (z < 0.1) supernovae near the celestial equator.
• Supernovae, Supernova Remnants and Young-Earth Creationism, by Dave Moore, addresses (mistaken) arguments that try to use observations to SNe to argue for biblical creation.
• The Knight Supernova Sample is a set of galaxies which has been chosen for their high SN rate.
• French SN site has links to information on many individual SNe.

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