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GCN Circular 14405

Subject
GRB 130420A: Faulkes Telescope North candidate
Date
2013-04-20T07:46:12Z (12 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy <guidorzi@fe.infn.it>
C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB),
D. Kopac, A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), on behalf of a
large collaboration report:

The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing
GRB 130420A at 4.35 minutes from the Swift/BAT trigger time.
The automatic LT-TRAP procedure identified a bright uncatalogued
object at the following position:

RA=   13:04:25.57
Dec= +59:25:26.7

(J2000.0).
Its magnitude is estimated to be 15.9 in the R band.
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