TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 236116 [ 2024TNSTR4924....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-16 09:11:34
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, G. Ramsay, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. Breton, L. Nuttall, E. Pallé, D. Pollacco, T. Killestein, A. Kumar, on behalf of GOTO collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024aeck
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24jah
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 23:28:53.419 (352.222578) DEC = -30:53:11.41 (-30.886504)
Discovery date: 2024-12-12 12:30:00.576 (JD=2460657.020843)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-12 12:30:00.576
Flux: 18.01 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-12-05 20:06:44
Limiting flux: 16.6 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-2
Telescope: GOTO-North


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024aeck