ZTF18acekqgn

28.570985, -1.923860

Discovery Date: 2018-11-07 06:32:33 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58429.27

Disc r-Mag: 20.66±0.20

Latest Date: 2018-12-04 06:12:26 UTC

Latest MJD: 58456.26

Latest r-Mag: 19.87±0.15

Peak Mag	19.38±0.21 (g-band)
Peak Date	2018-11-19 06:10:31
Peak MJD	58441.26
Detection Count	4 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	01:54:17.036, -01:55:25.897
Galactic Coords	156.436605, -60.640535
Ecliptic Coords	25.846046, -12.763646

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Transient Name Server

AT2018ixm

The transient was discovered on 7th November 2018 at 05:38:49 (MJD 58429.24) by ZTF as ZTF18acekqgn with a discovery magnitude of r = 20.66..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with KUG0151-021; a J=13.93 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.69 arcsec S, 5.15 arcsec W (7.5 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.062 implies a m - M = 37.21.

Difference Image Lightcurve

Access the data from this plot in the ZTF Alert Packet Data table below.