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GCN Circular 10776

Subject
GRB 100518A: Faulkes Telescope North Afterglow Candidate
Date
2010-05-18T15:00:48Z (14 years ago)
From
Zach Cano at ARI/John Moores Liverpool <zec@astro.livjm.ac.uk>
Z. Cano (Liverpool JMU), A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), C. Guidorzi (U.
Ferrara) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

On 2010 May 18 at 11:37:46 UT the 2-m Faulkes Telescope North
automatically began observing the INTEGRAL GRB 100518A (Mereghetti et al.,
GCN 10772).

The LT-TRAP automatically detected a fading object in R and i at the
following position:

Ra:   20:19:09.33
Dec: -24:33:16.50 (J2000)

This lies 0.4 arcseconds from the XRT centroid (Stamatikos et al., GCN
10775).
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