TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 244538 [ 2025TNSTR.625....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-16 10:26:04
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 2025bsb
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25ahp
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:55:27.012 (58.862552) DEC = -79:52:06.51 (-79.868474)
Discovery date: 2025-02-16 09:50:03.264 (JD=2460722.909756)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-16 09:50:03.264
Flux: 18.81 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-3
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-28 10:17:40
Limiting flux: 19.7 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-3
Telescope: GOTO-South


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2025bsb