Supernova discovery statistics

This list of objects going back 18 months. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the years covered, 48799 supernovae and 142 extragalactic novae were reported.
4578 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
44215 were given possible supernova designations,
and 6 were not reported to CBAT.
451 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 30691 were found in named galaxies
292 objects were discovered by amateurs
9 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
240 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
2291 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
3617 Type I supernovae were found
  3314 Type Ia
    16 Type Ia-02cx
    42 Type Ia-91bg
    130 Type Ia-91T
    42 Type Ia-pec
  125 Type Ib
    20 Type Ibn
    4 Type Ib-pec
  117 Type Ic
    2 Type Icn
    39 Type Ic-pec
  41 Type SLSN-I
945 Type II supernovae were found
  132 Type IIn
  55 Type IIP
  60 Type IIb
  1 Type IIL
  17 Type SLSN-II
  4 Type II-pec
16 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
4086 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
40090 were untyped
Of the 142 novae that were reported  30 were reported to CBAT and 112 were not
  1 were given official names by CBAT
  101 were found in M31
  14 were found in M81
  6 were found in M33
  97 were untyped


14864 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2024iwe)
14545 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2024iyu)
8345 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2024iyb)
4470 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2024iuk)
3854 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2024iyy)
 763 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (AT2024dqw)
 349 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2024ifa)
 323 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2024ixq)
 318 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2024imj)
 182 objects were discovered by ANTARES (prof) (AT2023aaaw)
 178 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2024hhs)
 140 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2024iqw)
  88 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2024ilk)
  61 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (2024grx)
  57 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2023acmp)
  46 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2024ivo)
  32 objects were discovered by PTF (prof) (AT2022aejl)
  30 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2024ixe)
  27 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2024dsy)
  25 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2024-04c?)
  25 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2024efz)
  22 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2024exw)
  17 objects were discovered by GSNST (prof) (AT2024art)
  13 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2023hym)
   7 objects were discovered by Ahumada (AT2023ils)
   6 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2024dda)
   5 objects were discovered by Fritz (AT2024ifi)
   5 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao and Weihao Wang (AT2023wot)
   5 objects were discovered by unknown (Nova M31 2024-01a?)
   4 objects were discovered by BOSS (AT2024hwo)
   4 objects were discovered by Robert Fidrich (AT2023ync)
   3 objects were discovered by Dumitru Ciprian (AT2023kdb)
   3 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini (2022abln)
   2 objects were discovered by Cacella (AT2023ozj)
   2 objects were discovered by Gianluca Masi (Nova M31 2023-10b?)
   2 objects were discovered by Hiroshi Okuno (AT2023zpf)
   2 objects were discovered by Konkoly Observatory (AT2022aedk)
   2 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (2022blm)
   2 objects were discovered by Mohammad Odeh (2023rve)
   2 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2024bch)
   1 objects were discovered by Berto Monard (2022jli)
   1 objects were discovered by Castellani Flavio (AT2023yij)
   1 objects were discovered by Chen (AT2024gsa)
   1 objects were discovered by Chris Spratt (AT2023sqw)
   1 objects were discovered by Christopher Brownewell (AT2023deu)
   1 objects were discovered by Cornen (AT2023hzc)
   1 objects were discovered by D. Balam (AT2022adba)
   1 objects were discovered by GIT (AT2023xvj)
   1 objects were discovered by Hidehiko Okoshi (2024ahv)
   1 objects were discovered by ILMT (AT2023yjc)
   1 objects were discovered by J-VAR (AT2024bxn)
   1 objects were discovered by Kinder (AT2023yba)
   1 objects were discovered by Malesani (AT2023vfi)
   1 objects were discovered by Masao Shimizu, Hiroyuki Naito, Shin-ya Narusawa (AT2022adux)
   1 objects were discovered by Rankin (AT2023gqg)
   1 objects were discovered by Robert Pickard (AT2022acht)
   1 objects were discovered by STSP (2024fxo)
   1 objects were discovered by Santos (AT2024gfb)
   1 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (2024iez)
   1 objects were discovered by Tomas Ahumada (AT2022aaaa)
   1 objects were discovered by Witold Caban (AT2024hix)
   1 objects were discovered by Yuqing Ren, Jingyuan Zhao (AT2023ttu)

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