ZTF18aayrkfa

233.501615, 31.997123

Discovery Date: 2018-06-09 05:26:51 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58278.23
Disc g-Mag: 20.01±0.12
Latest Date: 2018-06-12 05:06:16 UTC
Latest MJD: 58281.21
Latest r-Mag: 20.27±0.17
Peak Mag 20.01±0.12 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-06-09 05:26:51
Peak MJD 58278.23
Detection Count 3 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 15:34:0.388, 31:59:49.644
Galactic Coords 50.807417, 54.521547
Ecliptic Coords 219.424973, 49.229808

Transient Name Server

AT2018lwc

The transient was discovered on 8th June 2018 at 06:35:51 (MJD 58277.27) by ZTF as ZTF18aayrkfa with a discovery magnitude of r = 20.39..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J153400.34+315949.6; an r=19.03 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 0.16 arcsec S, 0.54 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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