Reporting Group
ATLAS
Discovering Data Source
ATLAS
Discovery Date
2021-01-13 14:58:33.600
TNS AT
Y
Public
Y
Discovery Mag
18.377
Filter
cyan-ATLAS
Reporter/s
J. Tonry, L. Denneau, A. Heinze, H. Weiland (IfA, University of Hawaii), B. Stalder (LSST), A. Rest (STScI), C. Stubbs (Harvard University), K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt, D. R. Young, S. Srivastav, O. McBrien, M. Fulton, J. Gillanders (Queen's University Belfast), T.-W. Chen (MPE), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota), J. Anderson (ESO)
Comments
Dr. Ken Smith (Queen's University Belfast)
Wed, 05/04/2022 - 14:22
This is C/2020 Y2 (ATLAS)
Known comet accidentally promoted to TNS. Apologies.
Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast)
Fri, 01/15/2021 - 11:42
Known comet - ignore
This is a known comet that sneaked through after our ephemeris check - matched on the MPC. Not a transient.