ZTF18acxzrqw

235.340536, 79.615665

Discovery Date: 2018-12-17 11:55:35 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58469.50
Disc g-Mag: 19.42±0.12
Latest Date: 2019-02-27 13:17:17 UTC
Latest MJD: 58541.55
Latest r-Mag: 19.81±0.21
Peak Mag 19.17±0.16 (r-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-28 13:16:08
Peak MJD 58480.55
Detection Count 19 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 15:41:21.729, 79:36:56.393
Galactic Coords 114.434709, 34.529146
Ecliptic Coords 111.881685, 74.035136

Transient Name Server

AT2018khq

The transient was discovered on 17th December 2018 at 11:55:34 (MJD 58469.50) by ZTF as ZTF18acxzrqw with a discovery magnitude of g = 19.42..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with GALEXASCJ154120.82%2B793653.2; an unknown-mag UvS found in the NED catalogue. It's located 3.06 arcsec N, 2.46 arcsec E from the UvS centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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