Supernova discovery statistics for 2026

These are supernova stastics for the year 2026. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2026, 3274 supernovae and 8 extragalactic novae were reported.
192 of these supernovae were named by TNS,
3082 were given possible supernova designations,
and 0 were not reported to TNS.
18 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 2417 were found in named galaxies
23 objects were discovered by amateurs
0 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
13 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
83 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
155 Type I supernovae were found
  146 Type Ia
    0 Type Ia-02cx
    0 Type Ia-91bg
    8 Type Ia-91T
    2 Type Ia-pec
  5 Type Ib
    1 Type Ibn
    0 Type Ib-pec
  3 Type Ic
    0 Type Icn
    1 Type Ic-pec
  1 Type SLSN-I
37 Type II supernovae were found
  4 Type IIn
  0 Type IIP
  5 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  2 Type SLSN-II
  0 Type II-pec
0 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
48 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
3033 were untyped
Of the 8 novae that were reported  1 were reported to TNS and 7 were not
  1 were given official names by TNS
  6 were found in M31
  1 were found in M81
  0 were found in M33
  7 were untyped


 934 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2026dhx)
 682 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2026dqt)
 543 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2026dva)
 483 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2026dvh)
 423 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2026dsm)
  69 objects were discovered by LAST (prof) (AT2026duv)
  49 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2026dux)
  29 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2026duu)
  20 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (AT2026ctw)
  19 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2026xz)
  13 objects were discovered by Ziyang Mai (AT2026dvi)
   9 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2026cuq)
   1 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2026dgt)
   1 objects were discovered by Flavio Castellani (AT2026blf)
   1 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2026gs)
   1 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2026-02a)
   1 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (AT2026ai)

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