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GCN Circular 14457

Subject
GRB 130427A: iTelescope T11 optical observations
Date
2013-04-27T12:26:03Z (11 years ago)
From
Veli-Pekka Hentunen at Taurus Hill Obs,A95 <veli-pekka.hentunen@kassiopeia.net>
Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen and Tuomo Salmi (Taurus Hill
Observatory, Varkaus, Finland) report:

We have detected GRB 130427A optical afterglow at iTelescope 
observatory T11 (Mayhill, New Mexico) 0.50-m/6.8 astrograph and FLI 
ProLine PL11002M CCD. Three unfiltered and three photometric V filter 
images with 120 sec exposure time were made.

The afterglow was detected at following position RA 11:32:32.83
and DEC +27:41:56.4

The following magnitudes were obtained from the observations using
NOMAD1 1176-0248446 (R=13.520, V=13.120) as the comparison:

Tmid(sec)+T0   Filter         Exp. time    Mag          Mag err. 
4597              unfiltered     120            15.02CR     0.04
4743              unfiltered     120            15.09CR     0.05
4887              unfiltered     120            15.11CR     0.05
5438              V                120            14.89V       0.04
5582              V                120            14.89V       0.04
5726              V                120            14.86V       0.04
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