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, 3916 supernovae and 18 extragalactic novae were reported.
412 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
3503 were given possible supernova designations,
and 1 were not reported to CBAT.
62 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 258 were found in named galaxies
63 objects were discovered by amateurs
2 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
53 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
329 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
358 Type I supernovae were found
  306 Type Ia
  10 Type Ib
  12 Type Ic
  28 Type I-pec
81 Type II supernovae were found
  14 Type IIn
  7 Type IIP
  1 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  1 Type II-pec
2 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
3426 were untyped
Of the 18 novae that were reported  2 were reported to CBAT and 16 were not
  0 were given official names by CBAT
  9 were found in M31
  3 were found in M81
  1 were found in M33
  14 were untyped


2189 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2020fod)
 706 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2020fhj)
 539 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2020fpt)
 285 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2020foq)
  84 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2020fdp)
  35 objects were discovered by DESGW (prof) (AT2020ehy)
  23 objects were discovered by GSNST (AT2020fpf)
  20 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2020eux)
   8 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2020enm)
   7 objects were discovered by ZUDS (AT2020dax)
   6 objects were discovered by OGLE (prof) (AT2020dud)
   5 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (2020duv)
   5 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2020ekk)
   3 objects were discovered by GRAWITA (prof) (AT2020dpg)
   3 objects were discovered by Jacques (AT2020fgz)
   2 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2020ejm)
   2 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2020emi)
   2 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2020-03c?)
   2 objects were discovered by SGLF (AT2020cjr)
   1 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2020cug)
   1 objects were discovered by Duszanowicz (AT2020fgr)
   1 objects were discovered by Emmanuel Conseil (AT2020epi)
   1 objects were discovered by Lundquist (AT2020arf)
   1 objects were discovered by Matthieu Conjat (AT2020end)
   1 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2020dpw)
   1 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (2020cdr)
   1 objects were discovered by TMTS (AT2020esx)

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