ZTF18aczdvug

143.745233, 9.701197

Discovery Date: 2018-12-20 10:38:04 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58472.44
Disc r-Mag: 20.07±0.19
Latest Date: 2019-01-10 11:19:29 UTC
Latest MJD: 58493.47
Latest r-Mag: 19.93±0.15
Peak Mag 19.47±0.15 (g-band)
Peak Date 2018-12-28 11:37:42
Peak MJD 58480.48
Detection Count 5 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 09:34:58.856, 09:42:4.308
Galactic Coords 223.885411, 40.620938
Ecliptic Coords 142.868043, -4.431513

Transient Name Server

AT2018kya

The transient was discovered on 20th December 2018 at 10:27:53 (MJD 58472.44) by ZTF as ZTF18aczdvug with a discovery magnitude of r = 20.19..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with SDSSJ093458.40%2B094207.8; an r=18.98 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 3.63 arcsec S, 6.58 arcsec E from the galaxy centre.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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