SN2026itn (via TNS)

First reported by: WFST

Volunteers who marked this as real:

Niladri S Kar, Mayahuel Torres Guerrero, Antonio Pasqua, Sushant Pandit, Svetoslav Alexandrov, A. Karunakaran, Jacquelyn Higinbotham, Rosemary Billington, M.T. Mazzucato

GOTO discovery observation: 2026-05-16T00:27:20.780000Z

Volunteer consensus: 100.0%

Subject 121081494

Kilonova Seekers subject for GOTO26evu

Classification: SN IIn

moriarty contextual classification

GOTO145011.60+241930.04 is likely associated with the B=15.28 mag galaxy HyperLEDA 52976 in the gladeplus_galaxies, ps1_stackobjectview_minimal catalogs (9.07” away). Probability of connection 99.977% – host is at 149.2 Mpc (z=0.0329+/-0.0010), implying a transient absolute magnitude of -16.69 and sky-projected offset of 6.15 kpc. This transient is spatially coincident with the cluster ZwCl 6978

Aladin view

Rubin (LSST) ZTF (Lasair)
NED SIMBAD

Legacy Survey DR10 (if available)

Legacy Survey