ZTF18aczbfau

27.854941, 16.857471

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 04:03:36 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58472.17
Disc g-Mag: 18.26±0.08
Latest Date: 2018-12-20 04:46:56 UTC
Latest MJD: 58472.20
Latest g-Mag: 18.08±0.07
Peak Mag 18.08±0.07 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-20 04:46:56
Peak MJD 58472.20
Detection Count 2 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 01:51:25.186, 16:51:26.895
Galactic Coords 142.951515, -43.670325
Ecliptic Coords 31.847955, 5.059687

Transient Name Server

AT2018kiu

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 04:03:21 (MJD 58472.17) by ZTF as ZTF18aczbfau with a discovery magnitude of g = 18.26..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: ORPHAN

The transient is not obviously associated with any catalogued galaxy nor is it coincident with a known stellar source.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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