TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 218468 [ 2024TNSTR2340....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-09 22:36:41
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: SN 2024peq
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24dlb
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:46:53.022 (11.720924) DEC = -06:40:38.76 (-6.677432)
Discovery date: 2024-07-01 03:52:15.456 (JD=2460492.661289)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-01 03:52:15.456
Flux: 19.38 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-06-18 04:52:43
Limiting flux: 19.5 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North


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