TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 1880 SUBJECT: GRB 030226: Optical afterglow DATE: 03/02/26 08:12:13 GMT FROM: Paul Price at RSAA, ANU P.A. Price (RSAA, ANU), D.W. Fox (Caltech) & H.W. Chen (MIT) report: The optical afterglow candidate reported in GCN #1879 has faded by approximately 0.3 mag in an image taken 9 minutes later, and has no discernible proper motion. The afterglow coordinates are: RA: 11:33:04.9 Dec: 25:53:55.6 (J2000) with error in each coordinate of approximately 0.5 arcsec. A finding chart is available from http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pap/grb030226finder.ps Offsets from the indicated sources to the afterglow are in: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pap/grb030225finder.txt This message may be cited.