GCN Circular 172

T.J. Galama, P. Vreeswijk (U. of Amsterdam), E. Palazzi, F. Frontera,
N. Masetti (ITESRE, CNR, Bologna) J. van Paradijs (U. of Amsterdam and
U. of Alabama in Huntsville), C. Kouveliotou (USRA/MSFC), and
A.C. Cameron (U. of St Andrews, UK) report:

"We have compared Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) R-band images (Dec
27.48 1998 UT) with the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS; 'Second Epoch
Southern' survey, UK Schmidt red filter), at the position of the
BeppoSAX NFI source (BeppoSAX mail 98/26) in the error box of GRB
981226 (Di Ciolo et al. IAUCirc 7074). The AAT image shows a point
source at RA = 23h29m35.0s, Dec = -23d56'31'' which is not visible in
the DSS. The position is accurate to 2 arcsec (1-sigma). We calibrated
the field using the standard field PG0231+051 (Landolt 1992, AJ 104,
340) and obtain R = 21.04 +- 0.10 for the point source. We cannot
establish whether the source is related to GRB 981226 as this is a
comparison between different filters, but it is a possible candidate."

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