Supernova discovery statistics for 2006

These are supernova stastics for the year 2006. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2006, 556 supernovae and 37 extragalactic novae were reported.
550 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
0 were given possible supernova designations,
and 6 were not reported to CBAT.
71 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 174 were found in named galaxies
134 objects were discovered by amateurs
3 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
44 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
166 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
418 Type I supernovae were found
  384 Type Ia
  22 Type Ib
  9 Type Ic
  4 Type I-pec
124 Type II supernovae were found
  20 Type IIn
  7 Type IIP
  10 Type IIb
  1 Type IIL
  0 Type II-pec
2 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
12 were untyped
Of the 37 novae that were reported  36 were reported to CBAT and 1 were not
  36 were given official names by CBAT
  19 were found in M31
  15 were found in M81
  1 were found in M33
  36 were untyped


 232 objects were discovered by SDSS Collaboration (prof)
  81 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof)
  72 objects were discovered by Nearby Supernova Factory (prof)
  55 objects were discovered by ESSENCE project (prof)
  27 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett et al.
  22 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al.
  14 objects were discovered by Berto Monard
  14 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki
  13 objects were discovered by ROTSE (prof)
  11 objects were discovered by Tom Boles
   7 objects were discovered by Mike Schwartz
   5 objects were discovered by Steward Observatory
   4 objects were discovered by R. Holmes et al.
   4 objects were discovered by WeCAPP (prof)
   3 objects were discovered by Brazilian Supernovae Search
   3 objects were discovered by Grzegorz Duszanowicz
   3 objects were discovered by University of Texas (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by Doug Rich
   2 objects were discovered by HST cluster SN project (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Carnegie Supernova Project (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Crni Vrh Obseratory
   1 objects were discovered by Federico Manzini
   1 objects were discovered by Jodrell Bank Observatory
   1 objects were discovered by Lulin Observatory
   1 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Marco Migliardi
   1 objects were discovered by Mark Armstrong
   1 objects were discovered by Michel Ory
   1 objects were discovered by Mirko Villi
   1 objects were discovered by Perth Observatory (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by SWIFT (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by Shoji Suzuki
   1 objects were discovered by Skinakas Observatory
   1 objects were discovered by Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics
   1 objects were discovered by Wolfgang Kloehr
   1 objects were discovered by Wolfgang Pietsch and Vadim Burwitz
   1 objects were discovered by Y.-S. Tsai and K.-C. Liu

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