Supernova discovery statistics for 2024

These are supernova stastics for the year 2024. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2024, 14949 supernovae and 41 extragalactic novae were reported.
1273 of these supernovae were named by TNS,
13674 were given possible supernova designations,
and 2 were not reported to TNS.
139 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 9308 were found in named galaxies
118 objects were discovered by amateurs
5 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
65 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
629 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
993 Type I supernovae were found
  915 Type Ia
    3 Type Ia-02cx
    14 Type Ia-91bg
    31 Type Ia-91T
    19 Type Ia-pec
  23 Type Ib
    3 Type Ibn
    5 Type Ib-pec
  38 Type Ic
    0 Type Icn
    13 Type Ic-pec
  17 Type SLSN-I
267 Type II supernovae were found
  28 Type IIn
  15 Type IIP
  23 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  3 Type SLSN-II
  1 Type II-pec
2 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
1058 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
12606 were untyped
Of the 41 novae that were reported  11 were reported to TNS and 30 were not
  0 were given official names by TNS
  28 were found in M31
  3 were found in M81
  3 were found in M33
  31 were untyped


4428 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2024uwb)
2901 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2024vcj)
2444 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2024vax)
2135 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2024vdi)
 940 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2024ufb)
 768 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2024vcg)
 405 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2024tst)
 260 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2024vbs)
 185 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2024vcu)
 163 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2024vdl)
  80 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2024uue)
  75 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2024hhs)
  57 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (AT2024dqw)
  28 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2024ueg)
  20 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2024uxx)
  17 objects were discovered by Fritz (AT2024uap)
  11 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M81 2024-08a?)
   6 objects were discovered by Konno (AT2024skj)
   6 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2024dsy)
   5 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (2024ixe)
   4 objects were discovered by Pessi (AT2024qru)
   4 objects were discovered by Zhao (AT2024rsq)
   3 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2024exw)
   3 objects were discovered by LAST (AT2024ppg)
   2 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2024pxg)
   2 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (AT2024pgq)
   2 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2024ssq)
   2 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2024ncu)
   2 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (AT2024pfn)
   1 objects were discovered by Chen (AT2024gsa)
   1 objects were discovered by Cornen (AT2024pzw)
   1 objects were discovered by Ederoclite (2024slh)
   1 objects were discovered by GSNST (prof) (AT2024art)
   1 objects were discovered by Gruen (AT2024jbv)
   1 objects were discovered by Hidehiko Okoshi (2024ahv)
   1 objects were discovered by J-VAR (AT2024bxn)
   1 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2024jfz)
   1 objects were discovered by KNTraP (AT2024qnv)
   1 objects were discovered by Mascola (AT2024unf)
   1 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2024bch)
   1 objects were discovered by Perez-Fournon (AT2024ohr)
   1 objects were discovered by STSP (2024fxo)
   1 objects were discovered by Santos (AT2024gfb)
   1 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (2024iez)
   1 objects were discovered by Terwel (2024svu)
   1 objects were discovered by Witold Caban (AT2024hix)
   1 objects were discovered by unknown (Nova M31 2024-01a?)

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