ZTF18adbadfz

233.125939, 25.486544

Discovery Date: 2018-12-28 12:42:01 UTC

Discovery MJD: 58480.53

Disc g-Mag: 19.13±0.19

Latest Date: 2019-03-05 12:27:28 UTC

Latest MJD: 58547.52

Latest r-Mag: 20.16±0.20

Peak Mag	18.77±0.09 (r-band)
Peak Date	2018-12-29 13:21:14
Peak MJD	58481.56
Detection Count	12 (excluding 0 neg flux detections)
Equatorial Coords	15:32:30.225, 25:29:11.558
Galactic Coords	39.665245, 54.020385
Ecliptic Coords	222.212094, 43.002516

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Transient Name Server

SN II SN2018kyf

The transient was discovered on 27th December 2018 at 15:01:26 (MJD 58479.63) by ATLAS as ATLAS18bcgx with a discovery magnitude of orange = 18.51. It was subsequently classified as a SN II at z = 0.034.

Sherlock Contextual Classification

Prediction: Supernova

The transient is possibly associated with CGCG136-008; a J=13.44 mag galaxy found in the NED/SDSS/2MASS/PS1 catalogues. It's located 6.11 arcsec N, 2.85 arcsec W (4.2 Kpc) from the galaxy centre. A host z=0.034 implies a m - M = 35.85.

Difference Image Lightcurve

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