TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 264321 [ 2025TNSTR2992....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-07-30 09:11:37
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 2020afiq
Discoverer internal name: SNAD280
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:03:49.248 (195.9552) DEC = +55:54:47.30 (55.91314)
Discovery date: 2020-02-20 11:27:46.368 (JD=2458899.97762)


Remarks: Transient identified by PineForest. See more info at: https://ztf.snad.space/view/790209200005857. 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 SNAD280.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-20 11:27:46.368
Flux: 20.39 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: For the first photometric point reference magnitude is 19.9 mag. ZTF DR OID 790209200005857 (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/2020afiq