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, 884 supernovae and 3 extragalactic novae were reported.
62 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
822 were given possible supernova designations,
and 0 were not reported to CBAT.
17 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 49 were found in named galaxies
4 objects were discovered by amateurs
1 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
11 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
53 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
59 Type I supernovae were found
  49 Type Ia
  1 Type Ib
  5 Type Ic
  4 Type I-pec
9 Type II supernovae were found
  1 Type IIn
  2 Type IIP
  0 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  0 Type II-pec
0 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
803 were untyped
Of the 3 novae that were reported  1 were reported to CBAT and 2 were not
  0 were given official names by CBAT
  3 were found in M31
  0 were found in M81
  0 were found in M33
  3 were untyped


 599 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2020ahd)
 126 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2020aik)
  81 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2020aky)
  58 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2020aio)
  13 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2020akd)
   6 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2020ais)
   2 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (Nova M31 2020-01a?)
   1 objects were discovered by OGLE (prof) (AT2020aic)
   1 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2020B)

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