ZTF18adalgta

226.214680, 21.069649

Discovery Date: 2018-12-24 12:54:06 UTC
Discovery MJD: 58476.54
Disc r-Mag: 19.30±0.20
Latest Date: 2019-03-14 10:30:20 UTC
Latest MJD: 58556.44
Latest r-Mag: 19.34±0.17
Peak Mag 19.28±0.11 (r-band)
Peak Date 2019-02-08 13:05:15
Peak MJD 58522.55
Detection Count 7 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords 15:04:51.523, 21:04:10.738
Galactic Coords 28.978667, 59.049840
Ecliptic Coords 216.344264, 36.713095

Transient Name Server

AT2018lbg

The transient was discovered on 24th December 2018 at 12:54:06 (MJD 58476.54) by ZTF as ZTF18adalgta with a discovery magnitude of r = 19.43..

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with NGC5842; a J=12.84 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 1.00 arcsec N, 6.45 arcsec W (4.5 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.035 implies a m - M = 35.91.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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