Supernova discovery statistics

This list of objects going back 18 months. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the years covered, 57839 supernovae and 145 extragalactic novae were reported.
4823 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
53010 were given possible supernova designations,
and 6 were not reported to CBAT.
456 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 39881 were found in named galaxies
649 objects were discovered by amateurs
9 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
194 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
1792 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
3685 Type I supernovae were found
  3346 Type Ia
    23 Type Ia-02cx
    44 Type Ia-91bg
    108 Type Ia-91T
    50 Type Ia-pec
  99 Type Ib
    14 Type Ibn
    7 Type Ib-pec
  167 Type Ic
    2 Type Icn
    52 Type Ic-pec
  81 Type SLSN-I
1101 Type II supernovae were found
  116 Type IIn
  48 Type IIP
  93 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  24 Type SLSN-II
  3 Type II-pec
11 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
2511 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
50476 were untyped
Of the 145 novae that were reported  24 were reported to CBAT and 121 were not
  2 were given official names by CBAT
  95 were found in M31
  17 were found in M81
  11 were found in M33
  93 were untyped


14064 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2026jxh)
13436 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2026jvr)
7418 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2026juv)
7156 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2026jwy)
4859 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2026jqn)
2860 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2026jmz)
1666 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2025oj)
1273 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (2026ctw)
 915 objects were discovered by LAST (prof) (AT2026jxj)
 828 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2026jvk)
 657 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2025adsl)
 523 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2026iqy)
 501 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2026jxk)
 457 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2026jtd)
 265 objects were discovered by DESGW (prof) (AT2025wzx)
 262 objects were discovered by PTF (prof) (AT2024ahdc)
 100 objects were discovered by TSST_COSMOS (prof) (AT2025oir)
  74 objects were discovered by SAGUARO (AT2026jqm)
  64 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2026xz)
  53 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (2026iur)
  52 objects were discovered by Vera C. Rubin Observatory (prof) (AT2025ailt)
  47 objects were discovered by Ziyang Mai (AT2026jvj)
  43 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2026juw)
  36 objects were discovered by VHU-TDA (AT2026elo)
  25 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (AT2026jnl)
  22 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2026jci)
  18 objects were discovered by JCAST (prof) (AT2025wst)
  17 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (AT2026ixl)
  17 objects were discovered by NEXUS (prof) (AT2025xdc)
  15 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2026fov)
  12 objects were discovered by jiashuo Zhang (AT2026ivf)
  11 objects were discovered by GOATS (AT2026eiz)
  11 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2025uni)
  10 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2026gs)
  10 objects were discovered by Róbert Fidrich (AT2025agmm)
   9 objects were discovered by ATALab (AT2024aigk)
   9 objects were discovered by Firstlight (AT2026jpm)
   8 objects were discovered by Flavio Castellani (AT2026blf)
   8 objects were discovered by Konno (AT2024aanz)
   7 objects were discovered by GOATS_bot (AT2026hoo)
   7 objects were discovered by Yuan-Sheng Tsai (AT2026X)
   6 objects were discovered by COIN (AT2026ejk)
   6 objects were discovered by Shevansh  Nagar (AT2026fvt)
   6 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (2026for)
   5 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini (AT2026epv)
   5 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2025agwf)
   5 objects were discovered by Lei Hu (AT2025qtm)
   5 objects were discovered by unknown (AT2025aeum)
   4 objects were discovered by Firstlight Bot (AT2026jpm)
   4 objects were discovered by KNTraP (prof) (AT2025abzu)
   4 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (2025jyk)
   4 objects were discovered by Zhao (AT2024rsq)
   3 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2025gj)
   2 objects were discovered by Ederoclite (AT2024acpk)
   2 objects were discovered by ILMT (AT2024zsm)
   2 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (AT2016blu)
   2 objects were discovered by LVRA (AT2026iym)
   2 objects were discovered by Mi Zhang (2025wwk)
   2 objects were discovered by Robert Fidrich (AT2025ncz)
   2 objects were discovered by Shevansh Nagar (AT2026gvy)
   1 objects were discovered by Ágoston Horti-Dávid (2026jih)
   1 objects were discovered by Alex Battu (AT2025nbg)
   1 objects were discovered by Antonio Martin-Carrillo (2025fhm)
   1 objects were discovered by BTSbot_bot (2025xju)
   1 objects were discovered by Erkki Kankare (AT2025wwl)
   1 objects were discovered by Filipp Romanov (2025umq)
   1 objects were discovered by JIST (2025gmc)
   1 objects were discovered by James Freeburn (AT2025ber)
   1 objects were discovered by Jean-Claude Merlin (AT2024aevn)
   1 objects were discovered by Jozsef Vinko (2025ilo)
   1 objects were discovered by Juan Lacruz (AT2025ipo)
   1 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima (Nova M31 2008-12a)
   1 objects were discovered by Melina Thévenot (AT2025aepz)
   1 objects were discovered by Noémie Globus (2025alij)
   1 objects were discovered by Reguitti (AT2024adip)
   1 objects were discovered by Rob Eyles-Ferris (2025kg)
   1 objects were discovered by Sarah Antier (AT2026jxi)
   1 objects were discovered by Sasaoka (AT2024aexk)
   1 objects were discovered by Shinichi Ono (2024aeee)
   1 objects were discovered by WL-GW (AT2025bmq)
   1 objects were discovered by Wynn Jacobson-Galan (2026fkf)
   1 objects were discovered by Yiming Mao (AT2025pk)
   1 objects were discovered by Yize Dong (2026fgl)
   1 objects were discovered by Zeno Foderaro (AT2025ftq)
   1 objects were discovered by tdescore_bot (2025abwv)

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