TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 245031 [ 2025TNSTR.671....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-19 13:24:53
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, G. Ramsay, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, 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 2025bzy
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25alq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:41:41.420 (175.422584) DEC = -44:09:45.26 (-44.162573)
Discovery date: 2025-02-19 11:58:31.008 (JD=2460725.998974)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-19 11:58:31.008
Flux: 19.68 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-02-15 12:13:06
Limiting flux: 19.2 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2025bzy