TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 242744 [ 2025TNSTR.399....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-29 10:48:06
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 2025ajo
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25wc
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:39:08.887 (219.787028) DEC = +43:03:39.80 (43.061056)
Discovery date: 2025-01-27 06:32:20.544 (JD=2460702.772459)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-27 06:32:20.544
Flux: 19.53 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-18 04:38:54
Limiting flux: 18.8 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/2025ajo