Supernova discovery statistics

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For the years covered, 7501 supernovae and 114 extragalactic novae were reported.
376 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
1714 were given possible supernova designations,
and 5411 were not reported to CBAT.
219 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 874 were found in named galaxies
341 objects were discovered by amateurs
4 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
208 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
1079 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
1349 Type I supernovae were found
  1244 Type Ia
  52 Type Ib
  63 Type Ic
  21 Type I-pec
433 Type II supernovae were found
  59 Type IIn
  88 Type IIP
  38 Type IIb
  2 Type IIL
  7 Type II-pec
8 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
5696 were untyped
Of the 114 novae that were reported  103 were reported to CBAT and 11 were not
  3 were given official names by CBAT
  56 were found in M31
  37 were found in M81
  10 were found in M33
  68 were untyped


4300 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof)
 683 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof)
 490 objects were discovered by OGLE-IV wide field survey (prof)
 363 objects were discovered by Gaia Photometric Science Alerts programme (prof)
 303 objects were discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) (prof)
 257 objects were discovered by La Silla-QUEST (prof)
 230 objects were discovered by PTF (prof)
 185 objects were discovered by Dark Energy Survey (prof)
 123 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof)
  87 objects were discovered by High Cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) (prof)
  81 objects were discovered by Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (prof)
  63 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al.
  51 objects were discovered by THU-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS) (prof)
  49 objects were discovered by Stu Parker
  39 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof)
  35 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project
  31 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki
  31 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett, Jack Newton, et al.
  24 objects were discovered by SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (prof)
  21 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof)
  21 objects were discovered by Xing Gao et al. (prof)
  14 objects were discovered by Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS) collaboration (prof)
  13 objects were discovered by Berto Monard
  10 objects were discovered by PMO-Tsinghua Supernova Survey (PTSS)
   9 objects were discovered by DECam (prof)
   9 objects were discovered by Ron Arbour
   6 objects were discovered by HST (prof)
   5 objects were discovered by E. Conseil
   5 objects were discovered by Greg Bock
   5 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima
   5 objects were discovered by Peter Marples
   5 objects were discovered by SkyMapper (prof)
   4 objects were discovered by Evgeni Ovcharov et al.
   4 objects were discovered by Jaroslaw Grzegorzek
   3 objects were discovered by Emmanuel Conseil
   3 objects were discovered by S. Maticic
   2 objects were discovered by B. Mikuz
   2 objects were discovered by CHASE (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by Doug Rich
   2 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini
   2 objects were discovered by Gloria Sala et al.
   2 objects were discovered by Ken'ichi Nishimura
   2 objects were discovered by Kunihiro Shima
   2 objects were discovered by Liverpool Telescope
   2 objects were discovered by M. Aoki
   2 objects were discovered by Mario Bombardini and Mirco Villi
   2 objects were discovered by XAO-THU Supernova Survey (XTSS)
   1 objects were discovered by Antarctic Survey Telescope (AST)
   1 objects were discovered by B. Dintinjana and  J. Skvarc
   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 Ciprian Dumitru Vintdevara
   1 objects were discovered by Constantine Emmanouilidi
   1 objects were discovered by David Grennan
   1 objects were discovered by ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Francois Kugel
   1 objects were discovered by Grzegorz Duszanowicz and Michal Zolnowski
   1 objects were discovered by H. Sato
   1 objects were discovered by J. Vales
   1 objects were discovered by Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Lou Cox, Dick Post,
   1 objects were discovered by Martin Henze et al.
   1 objects were discovered by Masaki Tsuboi
   1 objects were discovered by Mirco Villi, Mario Bombardini, Alessandro Benazzi
   1 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins
   1 objects were discovered by Peter Aldous
   1 objects were discovered by Peter Marples and Greg Bock
   1 objects were discovered by ROTSE (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Steve J. Fossey
   1 objects were discovered by T. Noguchi
   1 objects were discovered by Tom Boles
   1 objects were discovered by V. Nevski, V. Linkov and I. Molotov
   1 objects were discovered by VVV survey (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by unknown

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