TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 246306 [ 2025TNSTR.823....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-28 12:45:38
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 2025czq
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25awe
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:03:35.281 (180.897006) DEC = -18:06:01.70 (-18.100472)
Discovery date: 2025-02-28 12:24:00.288 (JD=2460735.016669)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-28 12:24:00.288
Flux: 19.78 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-02-25 02:12:22
Limiting flux: 19.1 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-2
Telescope: GOTO-North


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