{
  "bibcode": "2003GCN..1933....1M",
  "body": "E. Maiorano (Univ. Bologna & IASF/CNR, Bologna), N. Masetti, E. Palazzi \n(IASF/CNR, Bologna), H. Navasardyan (INAF - Astron. Obs. of Asiago), \nE. Pian (INAF - Astron. Obs. of Trieste), L.A. Antonelli (INAF - Astron. \nObs. of Rome) and D. Malesani (SISSA, Trieste), on behalf of a larger \nItalian collaboration, report:\n\n\"We have obtained BVRI images of the OT (Fox et al., GCN 1879) of\nGRB030226 (Suzuki et al., GCN 1888) with the 1.82-m \"Copernico\" telescope\n(plus AFOSC) of the Astronomical Observatory of Asiago (Italy).\nObservations started on February 26.947 UT, i.e. 0.79 days after the GRB.\nThe seeing ranged between 2.0 and 2.4 arcsec.\n\nThe OT is well detected in all bands; we measure for it the following BVRI\nmagnitudes with respect to stars A and B (Garvanich et al., GCN 1885) and\nusing the photometry by Henden (GCN 1916):\n\nmid-exposure\t  exptime    filter     mag     err\ntime (UT)           (s)\n-------------------------------------------------------\nFeb. 26.961        2x1200      B       21.03    0.04\nFeb. 26.987        2x900       V       20.76    0.02\nFeb. 27.030        2x600       R       20.47    0.03\nFeb. 27.078        2x600       I       20.24    0.06\n\n\nThis message is citeable.\"\n\n[GCN OPS NOTE (06mar03): This Circular was delayed 6.3 hours due to \nan address change by the submitter.]",
  "circularId": 1933,
  "createdOn": 1046996165000,
  "email": "maiorano@bo.iasf.cnr.it",
  "subject": "GRB030226: Optical observations at Asiago",
  "submitter": "Elisabetta Maiorano at U.of Bologna,Italy  <maiorano@bo.iasf.cnr.it>",
  "eventId": "GRB 030226"
}