TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 242468 [ 2025TNSTR.355....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-26 09:06:04
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, G. Ramsay, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, 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 2025afe
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25qk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:55:13.602 (223.806673) DEC = +03:36:42.93 (3.611926)
Discovery date: 2025-01-24 05:46:39.072 (JD=2460699.740729)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-24 05:46:39.072
Flux: 17.83 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-19 05:11:08
Limiting flux: 18.4 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/2025afe