Discovery certificate for object 2018civ
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 19248 [ 2018TNSTR.797....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2018-06-11 05:00:11
Sender: ZTF (ZTF_Bot1)
Reporting Group: ZTF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

C. Fremling (Caltech) on behalf of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: SN 2018civ
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aaxxfgs
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:31:14.051 (232.8085477) DEC = +16:53:33.84 (16.8927337)
Discovery date: 2018-06-04 07:36:28.000 (JD=2458273.8169907)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-06-04 07:36:28.000
Flux: 19.25 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2018-06-01 07:10:33
Limiting flux: 19.83 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018civ