Supernova discovery statistics
This list of objects going back 18 months.
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For the years covered, 36020 supernovae and 95 extragalactic novae were reported.
2851 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
33166 were given possible supernova designations,
and 3 were not reported to CBAT.
271 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 26193 were found in named galaxies
501 objects were discovered by amateurs
2 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
104 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
924 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
2168 Type I supernovae were found
1960 Type Ia
18 Type Ia-02cx
20 Type Ia-91bg
61 Type Ia-91T
24 Type Ia-pec
58 Type Ib
6 Type Ibn
3 Type Ib-pec
107 Type Ic
1 Type Icn
36 Type Ic-pec
53 Type SLSN-I
666 Type II supernovae were found
71 Type IIn
26 Type IIP
57 Type IIb
0 Type IIL
17 Type SLSN-II
1 Type II-pec
8 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
775 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
32370 were untyped
Of the 95 novae that were reported 14 were reported to CBAT and 81 were not
2 were given official names by CBAT
63 were found in M31
13 were found in M81
5 were found in M33
59 were untyped
9826 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2026mtl)
6832 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2026mwq)
6420 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2026msg)
4461 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2026mux)
3684 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2026mvy)
1216 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (2026ctw)
920 objects were discovered by LAST (prof) (AT2026mqr)
582 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2025adsl)
539 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2026mjq)
380 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2026msu)
245 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2026mpz)
200 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2026mul)
95 objects were discovered by TSST_COSMOS (prof) (AT2025oir)
89 objects were discovered by SAGUARO (AT2026mhr)
79 objects were discovered by DESGW (prof) (AT2025wzx)
60 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2025oj)
52 objects were discovered by Vera C. Rubin Observatory (prof) (AT2025ailt)
49 objects were discovered by Ziyang Mai (AT2026ljo)
36 objects were discovered by VHU-TDA (AT2026elo)
27 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2026mkm)
25 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2026xz)
23 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2026lkf)
18 objects were discovered by JCAST (prof) (AT2025wst)
17 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2026mqj)
17 objects were discovered by NEXUS (prof) (AT2025xdc)
16 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2026-05a)
16 objects were discovered by LVRA (AT2026mri)
14 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (AT2026jci)
12 objects were discovered by jiashuo Zhang (AT2026ivf)
11 objects were discovered by GOATS (AT2026eiz)
10 objects were discovered by Róbert Fidrich (AT2025agmm)
9 objects were discovered by Firstlight (AT2026jpm)
8 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (AT2026ixl)
8 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2026gs)
7 objects were discovered by Flavio Castellani (AT2026blf)
7 objects were discovered by GOATS_bot (AT2026hoo)
7 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2026fov)
6 objects were discovered by Shevansh Nagar (AT2026fvt)
6 objects were discovered by Yuan-Sheng Tsai (AT2026X)
5 objects were discovered by COIN (AT2026ejk)
5 objects were discovered by Lei Hu (AT2025qtm)
5 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2025uni)
5 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (2026for)
4 objects were discovered by Firstlight Bot (AT2026jpm)
4 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini (AT2026epv)
3 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2025agwf)
3 objects were discovered by unknown (AT2025aeum)
2 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (AT2016blu)
2 objects were discovered by Mi Zhang (2025wwk)
2 objects were discovered by Shevansh Nagar (AT2026gvy)
2 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (2025jyk)
1 objects were discovered by Ágoston Horti-Dávid (2026jih)
1 objects were discovered by Alex Battu (AT2025nbg)
1 objects were discovered by Antonio Martin-Carrillo (2025fhm)
1 objects were discovered by BTSbot_bot (2025xju)
1 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2025gj)
1 objects were discovered by Erkki Kankare (AT2025wwl)
1 objects were discovered by Filipp Romanov (2025umq)
1 objects were discovered by JIST (2025gmc)
1 objects were discovered by James Freeburn (AT2025ber)
1 objects were discovered by Jozsef Vinko (2025ilo)
1 objects were discovered by Juan Lacruz (AT2025ipo)
1 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima (Nova M31 2008-12a)
1 objects were discovered by Melina Thévenot (AT2025aepz)
1 objects were discovered by Minrui Ning (AT2026kpi)
1 objects were discovered by Noémie Globus (2025alij)
1 objects were discovered by Rob Eyles-Ferris (2025kg)
1 objects were discovered by Robert Fidrich (AT2025ncz)
1 objects were discovered by Sarah Antier (AT2026jxi)
1 objects were discovered by Vitali Nevski (AT2026kcx)
1 objects were discovered by WL-GW (AT2025bmq)
1 objects were discovered by Wynn Jacobson-Galan (2026fkf)
1 objects were discovered by Yasuo Sano (2026kid)
1 objects were discovered by Yiming Mao (AT2025pk)
1 objects were discovered by Yize Dong (2026fgl)
1 objects were discovered by Zeno Foderaro (AT2025ftq)
1 objects were discovered by tdescore_bot (2025abwv)
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