Supernova discovery statistics for 2008

These are supernova stastics for the year 2008. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2008, 520 supernovae and 36 extragalactic novae were reported.
257 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
11 were given possible supernova designations,
and 252 were not reported to CBAT.
93 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 200 were found in named galaxies
130 objects were discovered by amateurs
3 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
45 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
201 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
251 Type I supernovae were found
  215 Type Ia
  18 Type Ib
  18 Type Ic
  3 Type I-pec
140 Type II supernovae were found
  23 Type IIn
  12 Type IIP
  5 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  1 Type II-pec
2 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
113 were untyped
Of the 36 novae that were reported  35 were reported to CBAT and 1 were not
  35 were given official names by CBAT
  27 were found in M31
  5 were found in M81
  1 were found in M33
  1 were untyped


 155 objects were discovered by Nearby Supernova Factory (prof)
 123 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof)
  73 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof)
  30 objects were discovered by CHASE (prof)
  22 objects were discovered by ROTSE (prof)
  17 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett, Jack Newton, et al.
  15 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al.
  14 objects were discovered by Berto Monard
   9 objects were discovered by Tom Boles
   8 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki
   8 objects were discovered by SNLS (prof)
   7 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama
   5 objects were discovered by Angstrom Project (prof)
   5 objects were discovered by Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (prof)
   5 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project
   5 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima
   5 objects were discovered by M. M. Kasliwal
   4 objects were discovered by Martin Henze et el.
   3 objects were discovered by Coma and Virgo Exploration for Transients (prof)
   3 objects were discovered by Nearby Galaxy Supernova Search (prof)
   3 objects were discovered by SWIFT (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by BRASS
   2 objects were discovered by Grzegorz Duszanowicz
   2 objects were discovered by Super-LOTIS (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen
   2 objects were discovered by XMM-Newton (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by Yoshimi Ichimura
   1 objects were discovered by D. Sand et al.
   1 objects were discovered by Doug Rich
   1 objects were discovered by G. Sostero
   1 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini
   1 objects were discovered by J. L. Prieto, A. J. Drake, et el.
   1 objects were discovered by Jure Zakrajsek,
   1 objects were discovered by K. Nishiyama
   1 objects were discovered by Kankare, Mattila, Ryder et al.
   1 objects were discovered by M. Della Valle et. el.
   1 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Marco Migliardi and Elisa Londero
   1 objects were discovered by Mauro Biagetti and Giulia Iafrate
   1 objects were discovered by Mike Schwartz
   1 objects were discovered by Mikko Paivinen and Petri Kehusmaa
   1 objects were discovered by NAO Rozhen
   1 objects were discovered by Observatorio de La Sagra
   1 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Perth Observatory (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Peter Marples
   1 objects were discovered by Rafael Ferrando
   1 objects were discovered by Ron Arbour
   1 objects were discovered by Stanislav Korotkiy et al.
   1 objects were discovered by Stanislav Maticic
   1 objects were discovered by T. G. Tan
   1 objects were discovered by TNG
   1 objects were discovered by Takao Kobayashi
   1 objects were discovered by Taurus Hill Observatory
   1 objects were discovered by V. Burwitz et. el.
   1 objects were discovered by Very Large Array
   1 objects were discovered by Yasuhide Fujita

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