TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 241691 [ 2025TNSTR.250....1K ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-19 22:45:53
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

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

IAU Designation: AT 2025wc
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25kl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:05:18.960 (76.328998) DEC = +81:26:21.62 (81.439339)
Discovery date: 2025-01-19 22:18:40.032 (JD=2460695.429628)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-19 22:18:40.032
Flux: 18.54 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-08 19:44:01
Limiting flux: 19.4 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/2025wc