ZTF18acewhfa

132.594254, 59.792999

Discovery Date: 2018-11-08 08:51:01 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58430.37
Disc g-Mag: 20.38±0.17
Latest Date: 2018-11-15 11:56:52 UTC
Latest MJD: 58437.50
Latest g-Mag: 20.03±0.16
Peak Mag 19.78±0.16 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-11-12 10:08:30
Peak MJD 58434.42
Detection Count 4 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 08:50:22.621, 59:47:34.796
Galactic Coords 156.620658, 38.036086
Ecliptic Coords 116.479442, 40.208438

Transient Name Server

AT2018lwe

The transient was discovered on 8th November 2018 at 08:50:55 (MJD 58430.37) by ZTF as ZTF18acewhfa with a discovery magnitude of g = 20.38..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSS J085022.23+594733.3; an r=19.88 mag galaxy found in the SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.40 arcsec N, 2.90 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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