One of the major goals on ASAS-SN is to produce as complete as possible census of bright, nearby supernovae. In the last few months, using four telescopes in Hawaii and two telescopes in Chile, we have been finding about 10 bright (V<17) supernovae per month. That does not seem like much, compared to more than 1000 SNe found on the sky every year, but it turns out that in the last few months ASAS-SN finds more than half of all the bright SNe on the sky.

This is illustrated in the plot above, which is automatically updated using data from the Bright Supernova, a most useful website run by David Bishop. We plot the locations of all SNe that are currently V<17 and that have been typed spectroscopically and are less than two months old. SNe discovered by ASAS-SN are marked using blue stars. When we write these words (Wed Aug 6 14:41:30 EDT 2014), there are 15 blue stars and 10 grey stars plotted, so ASAS-SN alone discoveres more than 50 percent of all bright SNe on the sky! This could of course be just a temporary fluke, which is why this plot updates automatically, so check it out again in the future.