TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 238294 [ 2024TNSTR5152....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-30 20:02:15
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 2024agaf
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24jrr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:59:45.267 (224.938612) DEC = +09:24:07.25 (9.402014)
Discovery date: 2024-12-30 05:47:32.640 (JD=2460674.741347)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-30 05:47:32.640
Flux: 18.78 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-2
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-12-19 06:30:28
Limiting flux: 17.5 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024agaf