TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 240835 [ 2025TNSTR.120....1K ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-09 08:40:19
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

A. Kumar, 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, D. O'Neill, on behalf of GOTO collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2025hb
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25fa
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:26:41.385 (231.672437) DEC = +06:42:19.43 (6.705396)
Discovery date: 2025-01-09 06:24:30.528 (JD=2460684.76702)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-09 06:24:30.528
Flux: 18.59 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-08 20:32:57
Limiting flux: 19.5 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/2025hb