ZTF18acvgyst

158.198629, -0.204230

Discovery Date: 2018-12-12 12:29:25 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58464.52

Disc g-Mag: 18.48±0.06

Latest Date: 2019-03-30 05:29:25 UTC

Latest MJD: 58572.23

Latest r-Mag: 18.93±0.19

Peak Mag	18.19±0.07 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-28 10:57:32
Peak MJD	58480.46
Detection Count	25 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	10:32:47.671, -00:12:15.228
Galactic Coords	246.558394, 46.921148
Ecliptic Coords	159.924410, -8.684876

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Transient Name Server

SN II SN2018jqy

The transient was discovered on 8th December 2018 at 14:15:21 (MJD 58460.59) by ATLAS as ATLAS18bbqp with a discovery magnitude of orange = 18.55. It was subsequently classified as a SN II at z = 0.034.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with 2MASXJ10324763-0012187; an r=18.79 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.93 arcsec N, 0.36 arcsec E (1.3 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.034 implies a m - M = 35.87.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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