Supernova discovery statistics for 2020

These are supernova stastics for the year 2020. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2020, 12699 supernovae and 29 extragalactic novae were reported.
1180 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
11517 were given possible supernova designations,
and 2 were not reported to CBAT.
143 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 667 were found in named galaxies
79 objects were discovered by amateurs
9 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
129 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
919 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
975 Type I supernovae were found
  852 Type Ia
  25 Type Ib
  35 Type Ic
  56 Type I-pec
234 Type II supernovae were found
  38 Type IIn
  12 Type IIP
  8 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  1 Type II-pec
4 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
11371 were untyped
Of the 29 novae that were reported  7 were reported to CBAT and 22 were not
  0 were given official names by CBAT
  16 were found in M31
  5 were found in M81
  2 were found in M33
  22 were untyped


5724 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2020uct)
3902 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2020uaq)
1775 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2020uas)
 819 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2020ubp)
 236 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2020tya)
  66 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2020ual)
  50 objects were discovered by GSNST (prof) (AT2020roh)
  35 objects were discovered by DESGW (prof) (AT2020ehy)
  29 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2020she)
  15 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2020ubx)
   9 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2020nvb)
   8 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2020kol)
   7 objects were discovered by ZUDS (AT2020dax)
   6 objects were discovered by BraTS (AT2020tcl)
   6 objects were discovered by OGLE (prof) (AT2020dud)
   5 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M81 2020-07a?)
   3 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (AT2020juh)
   3 objects were discovered by DogsHeavenTS (AT2020pwm)
   3 objects were discovered by Duszanowicz (2020ohg)
   3 objects were discovered by GRAWITA (prof) (AT2020dpg)
   3 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (2020gpe)
   3 objects were discovered by SGLF (AT2020nwn)
   3 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (AT2020kbv)
   2 objects were discovered by Gattini (AT2020rxu)
   1 objects were discovered by Emmanuel Conseil (2020epi)
   1 objects were discovered by Filipp Romanov (AT2020quo)
   1 objects were discovered by Jacques (AT2020ssd)
   1 objects were discovered by Lundquist (AT2020arf)
   1 objects were discovered by Matthieu Conjat (AT2020end)
   1 objects were discovered by Neagu (AT2020htx)
   1 objects were discovered by PIKA (AT2020ler)
   1 objects were discovered by PMO-Tsinghua Supernova Survey (PTSS) (prof) (2020iic)
   1 objects were discovered by PSH (AT2020gcr)
   1 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2020dpw)
   1 objects were discovered by TMTS (2020esx)
   1 objects were discovered by Tercu (AT2020rte)
   1 objects were discovered by Walter Robledo (AT2020lri)

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