ZTF18acuegof

210.589547, -7.220884

Discovery Date: 2018-12-16 12:58:19 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58468.54

Disc r-Mag: 18.87±0.10

Latest Date: 2019-01-09 12:49:34 UTC

Latest MJD: 58492.53

Latest g-Mag: 19.93±0.15

Peak Mag	18.87±0.10 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-16 12:58:19
Peak MJD	58468.54
Detection Count	6 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	14:02:21.491, -07:13:15.182
Galactic Coords	332.034195, 51.598499
Ecliptic Coords	211.002384, 4.904455

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Transient Name Server

AT2018kfo

The transient was discovered on 17th December 2018 at 06:01:26 (MJD 58469.25) by GaiaAlerts as Gaia18dwb with a discovery magnitude of G = 18.87..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Nuclear Transient

The transient is synonymous with GALEXASCJ140221.49-071314.2; a 19.39 mag galaxy found in the NED catalogue. It's located 1.2 arcsec from the galaxy core.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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