Supernova discovery statistics for 2014

These are supernova stastics for the year 2014. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2014, 1950 supernovae and 55 extragalactic novae were reported.
138 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
90 were given possible supernova designations,
and 1722 were not reported to CBAT.
80 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 299 were found in named galaxies
149 objects were discovered by amateurs
2 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
87 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
388 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
525 Type I supernovae were found
  474 Type Ia
  22 Type Ib
  28 Type Ic
  8 Type I-pec
172 Type II supernovae were found
  27 Type IIn
  36 Type IIP
  12 Type IIb
  1 Type IIL
  2 Type II-pec
2 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
1250 were untyped
Of the 55 novae that were reported  47 were reported to CBAT and 8 were not
  0 were given official names by CBAT
  16 were found in M31
  23 were found in M81
  8 were found in M33
  34 were untyped


 712 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof)
 306 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof)
 206 objects were discovered by OGLE-IV wide field survey (prof)
 172 objects were discovered by La Silla-QUEST (prof)
  92 objects were discovered by Gaia Photometric Science Alerts programme (prof)
  80 objects were discovered by PTF (prof)
  77 objects were discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) (prof)
  67 objects were discovered by Dark Energy Survey (prof)
  50 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof)
  30 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al.
  30 objects were discovered by Stu Parker
  29 objects were discovered by THU-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS) (prof)
  23 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof)
  21 objects were discovered by Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (prof)
  14 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project
  12 objects were discovered by Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS) collaboration (prof)
  12 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki
  12 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett, Jack Newton, et al.
   9 objects were discovered by DECam (prof)
   8 objects were discovered by Berto Monard
   4 objects were discovered by SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (prof)
   4 objects were discovered by Xing Gao et al. (prof)
   3 objects were discovered by HST (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by E. Conseil
   2 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima
   2 objects were discovered by Mario Bombardini and Mirco Villi
   2 objects were discovered by Peter Marples
   2 objects were discovered by Ron Arbour
   1 objects were discovered by Antarctic Survey Telescope (AST)
   1 objects were discovered by B. Mikuz
   1 objects were discovered by CHASE (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Carl Hergenrother
   1 objects were discovered by Center of Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (CATA) Supernova Search
   1 objects were discovered by David Grennan
   1 objects were discovered by Doug Rich
   1 objects were discovered by ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini
   1 objects were discovered by Greg Bock
   1 objects were discovered by H. Sato
   1 objects were discovered by Jaroslaw Grzegorzek
   1 objects were discovered by Ken'ichi Nishimura
   1 objects were discovered by Liverpool Telescope
   1 objects were discovered by Lou Cox, Dick Post,
   1 objects were discovered by Martin Henze et al.
   1 objects were discovered by Mirco Villi, Mario Bombardini, Alessandro Benazzi
   1 objects were discovered by Peter Aldous
   1 objects were discovered by ROTSE (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Steve J. Fossey
   1 objects were discovered by Tom Boles
   1 objects were discovered by V. Nevski, V. Linkov and I. Molotov

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