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, 8883 supernovae and 24 extragalactic novae were reported.
811 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
8070 were given possible supernova designations,
and 2 were not reported to CBAT.
112 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 488 were found in named galaxies
59 objects were discovered by amateurs
2 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
78 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
618 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
679 Type I supernovae were found
  588 Type Ia
  19 Type Ib
  24 Type Ic
  45 Type I-pec
159 Type II supernovae were found
  20 Type IIn
  10 Type IIP
  6 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  1 Type II-pec
3 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
8022 were untyped
Of the 24 novae that were reported  6 were reported to CBAT and 18 were not
  0 were given official names by CBAT
  12 were found in M31
  4 were found in M81
  2 were found in M33
  19 were untyped


4255 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2020nvg)
2554 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2020nvd)
1225 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2020nvw)
 488 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2020nvs)
 174 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2020ntj)
  49 objects were discovered by GSNST (prof) (AT2020nsr)
  36 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2020nub)
  35 objects were discovered by DESGW (prof) (AT2020ehy)
  17 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (2020ntl)
  10 objects were discovered by XOSS (Nova M33 2020-06a?)
   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 OGLE (prof) (AT2020dud)
   4 objects were discovered by BraTS (AT2020mas)
   4 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2020-04e?)
   3 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (AT2020juh)
   3 objects were discovered by GRAWITA (prof) (AT2020dpg)
   3 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (2020gpe)
   3 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (AT2020kbv)
   2 objects were discovered by Duszanowicz (AT2020mbo)
   2 objects were discovered by SGLF (AT2020cjr)
   1 objects were discovered by Emmanuel Conseil (2020epi)
   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 Walter Robledo (AT2020lri)

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