TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 264323 [ 2025TNSTR2992....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-07-30 09:18:40
Date made public:
Sender: SNAD_bot
Reporting Group: SNAD     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Timofey Semenikhin on behalf of the SNAD team report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2018mps
Discoverer internal name: SNAD282
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:23:22.654 (215.84439) DEC = +33:43:22.62 (33.72295)
Discovery date: 2018-05-08 06:05:11.040 (JD=2458246.7536)


Remarks: Transient identified by PineForest. See more info at: https://ztf.snad.space/view/676212300024137. There is no ZTF Alert ID for this object (i.e., not in the alert stream), so we report the internal SNAD Object ID instead. The internal SNAD Object ID is SNAD282.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-05-08 06:05:11.040
Flux: 20.48 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: For the first photometric point reference magnitude is 20.82 mag. ZTF DR OID 676212300024137 (zr). No ZTF Alert ID found.

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018mps