Supernova discovery statistics

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For the years covered, 44430 supernovae and 112 extragalactic novae were reported.
3519 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
40879 were given possible supernova designations,
and 32 were not reported to CBAT.
312 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 43551 were found in named galaxies
422 objects were discovered by amateurs
3 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
119 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
1058 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
2663 Type I supernovae were found
  2389 Type Ia
    19 Type Ia-02cx
    23 Type Ia-91bg
    79 Type Ia-91T
    30 Type Ia-pec
  80 Type Ib
    10 Type Ibn
    4 Type Ib-pec
  127 Type Ic
    3 Type Icn
    42 Type Ic-pec
  63 Type SLSN-I
836 Type II supernovae were found
  104 Type IIn
  32 Type IIP
  66 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  19 Type SLSN-II
  3 Type II-pec
9 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
879 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
40008 were untyped
Of the 112 novae that were reported  19 were reported to CBAT and 93 were not
  2 were given official names by CBAT
  75 were found in M31
  15 were found in M81
  5 were found in M33
  74 were untyped


11365 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2026yvw)
8325 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2026yvu)
7932 objects were discovered by WFST (prof) (AT2026ysf)
5278 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2026ywz)
4455 objects were discovered by GOTO (prof) (AT2026ypw)
1632 objects were discovered by ALeRCE (prof) (AT2026vcv)
1216 objects were discovered by DESIRT (prof) (2026ctw)
1142 objects were discovered by LAST (prof) (AT2026yuj)
 582 objects were discovered by GW-MMADS (prof) (AT2025adsl)
 565 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2026yoo)
 414 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (AT2026yer)
 312 objects were discovered by SGLF (prof) (AT2026txp)
 282 objects were discovered by BlackGEM (prof) (AT2026uxv)
 104 objects were discovered by SAGUARO (prof) (AT2026unp)
  95 objects were discovered by TSST_COSMOS (prof) (AT2025oir)
  87 objects were discovered by LVRA (prof) (AT2026std)
  83 objects were discovered by NEXUS (prof) (AT2026rgz)
  79 objects were discovered by DESGW (prof) (AT2025wzx)
  58 objects were discovered by Ziyang Mai (AT2026ymq)
  52 objects were discovered by Vera C. Rubin Observatory (prof) (AT2025ailt)
  36 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (2026uzh)
  36 objects were discovered by GOATS (prof) (AT2026seb)
  36 objects were discovered by VHU-TDA (AT2026elo)
  27 objects were discovered by GEOTS (prof) (AT2026sfo)
  25 objects were discovered by JWST (prof) (AT2026xz)
  21 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M31 2026-06c?)
  18 objects were discovered by JCAST (prof) (AT2025wst)
  17 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (2026tmt)
  15 objects were discovered by Robert Fidrich (AT2026yvz)
  12 objects were discovered by jiashuo Zhang (AT2026ivf)
  10 objects were discovered by Fink (prof) (AT2026plx)
  10 objects were discovered by Jingyuan Zhao (AT2026wfl)
   9 objects were discovered by Firstlight (prof) (AT2026jpm)
   8 objects were discovered by Flavio Castellani (AT2026wvv)
   8 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (AT2026yly)
   7 objects were discovered by Aidan Sedgewick (AT2026umv)
   6 objects were discovered by COIN (AT2026uxw)
   6 objects were discovered by Taiga Sasaoka (2026unq)
   6 objects were discovered by Yuan-Sheng Tsai (AT2026X)
   5 objects were discovered by Andrea Reguitti (AT2026ymp)
   5 objects were discovered by Lei Hu (AT2025qtm)
   5 objects were discovered by MeerLICHT (prof) (AT2025uni)
   4 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini (AT2026epv)
   4 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (2026pel)
   4 objects were discovered by Shevansh  Nagar (AT2026fvt)
   4 objects were discovered by Shevansh Nagar (AT2026hax)
   3 objects were discovered by unknown (AT2025aeum)
   2 objects were discovered by BTS (AT2026rhp)
   2 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (AT2016blu)
   2 objects were discovered by Mi Zhang (2025wwk)
   2 objects were discovered by Minrui Ning (AT2026oww)
   2 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2026sqf)
   2 objects were discovered by Peter Blanchard (2026uii)
   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 Corey Rennell (AT2026win)
   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 Francisco Ocaña (AT2026ykv)
   1 objects were discovered by Halima Hussain Sayed (AT2026xkp)
   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 Lukasz Wyrzykowski (AT2026wpf)
   1 objects were discovered by Melina Thévenot (AT2025aepz)
   1 objects were discovered by Michael Engesser (AT2025amtx)
   1 objects were discovered by Noémie Globus (2025alij)
   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 Yize Dong (2026fgl)
   1 objects were discovered by Zeno Foderaro (AT2025ftq)
   1 objects were discovered by tdescore_bot (2025abwv)

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