The project is led by Robert Quimby and to date has found 35 supernovae, 29 of which they were the first to report on.
SN 2005ap was an extremely energetic type II supernova.
[2] Although SN 2005ap was twice as bright at its peak than SN 2006gy it was not as energetic overall as the former brightened and dimmed in a typical period of a few days whereas the latter remained very bright for many months.
SN2005ap was about 300 times brighter than normal for a type II supernova.
It has been speculated that this supernova involved the formation of a quark star.