ZTF18acebfny

81.798906, 73.118571

Discovery Date: 2018-11-06 07:12:29 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58428.30
Disc g-Mag: 19.86±0.16
Latest Date: 2018-11-19 09:42:08 UTC
Latest MJD: 58441.40
Latest r-Mag: 19.42±0.18
Peak Mag 19.23±0.14 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-12 08:42:49
Peak MJD 58434.36
Detection Count 7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 05:27:11.737, 73:07:6.857
Galactic Coords 139.702928, 20.087866
Ecliptic Coords 86.321595, 49.783991

Transient Name Server

AT2018ixj

The transient was discovered on 6th November 2018 at 07:12:30 (MJD 58428.30) by ZTF as ZTF18acebfny with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.23..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 05271175+7307068; a J=14.59 mag galaxy found in the 2MASS/PS1/GAIA catalogues. It's located 0.03 arcsec N, 0.07 arcsec W from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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