Supernova discovery statistics for 2024

These are supernova stastics for the year 2024. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2024, 6484 supernovae and 19 extragalactic novae were reported.
527 of these supernovae were named by TNS,
5956 were given possible supernova designations,
and 1 were not reported to TNS.
69 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 3946 were found in named galaxies
49 objects were discovered by amateurs
3 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
40 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
351 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
419 Type I supernovae were found
  388 Type Ia
    2 Type Ia-02cx
    2 Type Ia-91bg
    15 Type Ia-91T
    7 Type Ia-pec
  10 Type Ib
    1 Type Ibn
    2 Type Ib-pec
  12 Type Ic
    0 Type Icn
    4 Type Ic-pec
  9 Type SLSN-I
108 Type II supernovae were found
  17 Type IIn
  9 Type IIP
  11 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  0 Type SLSN-II
  0 Type II-pec
0 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
539 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
5413 were untyped
Of the 19 novae that were reported  9 were reported to TNS and 10 were not
  0 were given official names by TNS
  13 were found in M31
  2 were found in M81
  0 were found in M33
  16 were untyped


1505 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2024imo)
1477 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2024ilw)
1379 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2024inn)
1060 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2024iot)
 541 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2024ioc)
 159 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2024iml)
  75 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2024ilk)
  75 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2024hhs)
  57 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (AT2024dqw)
  53 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2024ifa)
  50 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2024imj)
  17 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2024ijo)
  10 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2024-04c?)
   6 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2024hyd)
   6 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2024dsy)
   4 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (2024gqf)
   4 objects were discovered by Fritz (AT2024ifi)
   3 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2024exw)
   1 objects were discovered by BOSS (AT2024hwo)
   1 objects were discovered by Chen (AT2024gsa)
   1 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (2024grx)
   1 objects were discovered by GSNST (prof) (AT2024art)
   1 objects were discovered by Hidehiko Okoshi (2024ahv)
   1 objects were discovered by J-VAR (AT2024bxn)
   1 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2024bch)
   1 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2024efz)
   1 objects were discovered by STSP (2024fxo)
   1 objects were discovered by Santos (AT2024gfb)
   1 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (AT2024iez)
   1 objects were discovered by Witold Caban (AT2024hix)
   1 objects were discovered by unknown (Nova M31 2024-01a?)

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