Supernova discovery statistics

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For the years covered, 37437 supernovae and 111 extragalactic novae were reported.
3394 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
34037 were given possible supernova designations,
and 6 were not reported to CBAT.
342 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 23191 were found in named galaxies
273 objects were discovered by amateurs
8 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
169 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
1676 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
2588 Type I supernovae were found
  2364 Type Ia
    12 Type Ia-02cx
    29 Type Ia-91bg
    87 Type Ia-91T
    39 Type Ia-pec
  85 Type Ib
    15 Type Ibn
    6 Type Ib-pec
  97 Type Ic
    1 Type Icn
    28 Type Ic-pec
  37 Type SLSN-I
774 Type II supernovae were found
  91 Type IIn
  47 Type IIP
  52 Type IIb
  1 Type IIL
  13 Type SLSN-II
  2 Type II-pec
11 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
2921 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
31099 were untyped
Of the 111 novae that were reported  23 were reported to CBAT and 88 were not
  1 were given official names by CBAT
  81 were found in M31
  5 were found in M81
  8 were found in M33
  73 were untyped


11362 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2024xms)
7650 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2024xea)
6034 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2024xmy)
5046 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2024xgc)
2904 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2024xmj)
1130 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2024xmq)
 832 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (AT2024dqw)
 650 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2024tst)
 350 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2024xmf)
 300 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2024xaw)
 223 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2024xhn)
 216 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2024wzm)
 197 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2024hhs)
 120 objects were discovered by ANTARES (prof) (AT2023aaaw)
 105 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2024jfz)
  76 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (2024vjb)
  65 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (2024vim)
  44 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2024uxx)
  26 objects were discovered by Fritz (AT2024wyu)
  21 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2024wpa)
  18 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M81 2024-08a?)
  17 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2024dsy)
  13 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (AT2024vsu)
   7 objects were discovered by Ahumada (AT2023ils)
   7 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2024pxg)
   7 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2024ssq)
   7 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2024ncu)
   7 objects were discovered by Pessi (AT2024vgg)
   7 objects were discovered by unknown (Nova M31 2024-09b?)
   6 objects were discovered by Konno (AT2024skj)
   5 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao and Weihao Wang (AT2023wot)
   4 objects were discovered by GSNST (prof) (AT2024art)
   4 objects were discovered by Robert Fidrich (AT2023ync)
   4 objects were discovered by Zhao (AT2024rsq)
   3 objects were discovered by LAST (AT2024ppg)
   3 objects were discovered by Perez-Fournon (2024vny)
   2 objects were discovered by Cornen (AT2024pzw)
   2 objects were discovered by Dumitru Ciprian (AT2023kdb)
   2 objects were discovered by Gianluca Masi (Nova M31 2023-10b?)
   2 objects were discovered by Mohammad Odeh (2023rve)
   2 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (AT2024pfn)
   1 objects were discovered by COIN (AT2024wzo)
   1 objects were discovered by Castellani Flavio (AT2023yij)
   1 objects were discovered by Chen (AT2024gsa)
   1 objects were discovered by Chris Spratt (AT2023sqw)
   1 objects were discovered by Ederoclite (2024slh)
   1 objects were discovered by GIT (AT2023xvj)
   1 objects were discovered by Gruen (AT2024jbv)
   1 objects were discovered by Hidehiko Okoshi (2024ahv)
   1 objects were discovered by ILMT (AT2023yjc)
   1 objects were discovered by J-VAR (AT2024bxn)
   1 objects were discovered by KNTraP (AT2024qnv)
   1 objects were discovered by Kinder (AT2023yba)
   1 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (AT2016blu)
   1 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2024bch)
   1 objects were discovered by Rankin (AT2023gqg)
   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 Yuqing Ren, Jingyuan Zhao (AT2023ttu)
   0 objects were discovered by  ()

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