Supernova discovery statistics for 2026

These are supernova stastics for the year 2026. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2026, 1873 supernovae and 5 extragalactic novae were reported.
89 of these supernovae were named by TNS,
1784 were given possible supernova designations,
and 0 were not reported to TNS.
10 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 1365 were found in named galaxies
13 objects were discovered by amateurs
0 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
5 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
39 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
72 Type I supernovae were found
  68 Type Ia
    0 Type Ia-02cx
    0 Type Ia-91bg
    3 Type Ia-91T
    2 Type Ia-pec
  3 Type Ib
    1 Type Ibn
    0 Type Ib-pec
  0 Type Ic
    0 Type Icn
    0 Type Ic-pec
  1 Type SLSN-I
16 Type II supernovae were found
  1 Type IIn
  0 Type IIP
  2 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  1 Type SLSN-II
  0 Type II-pec
0 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
18 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
1766 were untyped
Of the 5 novae that were reported  0 were reported to TNS and 5 were not
  0 were given official names by TNS
  4 were found in M31
  1 were found in M81
  0 were found in M33
  4 were untyped


 557 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2026btd)
 400 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2026bon)
 329 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2026bse)
 268 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2026bsu)
 194 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2026bsl)
  50 objects were discovered by LAST (prof) (AT2026bgx)
  19 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2026xz)
  18 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2026bli)
  13 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (AT2026bbk)
  12 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2026awf)
   6 objects were discovered by Fritz (prof) (AT2026bnb)
   4 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2026bpd)
   4 objects were discovered by Ziyang Mai (AT2026bkm)
   1 objects were discovered by Flavio Castellani (AT2026blf)
   1 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2026gs)
   1 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (AT2026ai)

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