Hi Chris,

Quick answer: download this file to your Guide folder and unZIP it:

http://www.projectpluto.com/supernov.zip

(about 200 KBytes compressed, 880 decompressed). You can then use
Go To... Object name, enter 2009kq, and Guide will center on that
object. You can also use Extras... Toggle User Datasets, look for
"Atlas of Supernovae", and turn that on; supernovae will then be
displayed, and you can right-click on 2009kq (or any other SN) and
get 'more info' about it.

A few comments about this:

The list comes from

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Supernovae.html

...converted to text. This is on the MPC's old site, not updated
since 12 February, when hackers attacked that site. The page really
should be at

http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/Supernovae.html

but that page (like many other MPC pages) isn't back up yet. So
we're stuck with the old version until MPC gets around to fixing things.

When looking for this data in Extras... Toggle User Datasets,
I looked for it under 'Supernovae' and didn't find it, because it
was under 'Atlas of Supernovae'. Not a good choice! This will be
fixed in the next update (a matter of editing 'cd_data3.tdf' and
similar files for other languages).

This would make things much easier. But I still have 162 datasets
listed under Toggle User Datasets. True, I've more than the average
user, since people send me datasets to test from time to time. But
some classification into categories might help, say,

Stars
Groups of stars (clusters)
Galaxies
Nebulae
Miscellaneous

-- Bill