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GCN Circular 21096

Subject
Swift Trigger AXP CXOU J164710.2-455216: MASTER-OAFA observations
Date
2017-05-16T07:51:12Z (7 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, A.V.Krylov,
I.Gorbunov, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, V.V.Chazov, D. Vlasenko
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institut of MSU

R.Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA) , 
National University of San Juan, Argentina

H. Levato, C. Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas,de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE),
San Juan, Argentina

K.Ivanov, S.Yazev, N.M.Budnev, O.Gres, O.Chuvalaev, V.A.Poleshchuk, O. Ershova 
Irkutsk State University

V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk

A. Tlatov, V.Senik, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

D.Buckley, S. Potter, A.Kniazev, M.Kotze
South African Astronomical Observatory

R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias


MASTER   robotic telescope ( http://200.123.254.238:49001/ ) 
located in OAFA was pointed to the  GRB170516.3 24 sec after notice time 
and 34 sec after trigger time at 2017-05-16 07:09:40 UT. On our first (10s 
exposure)  set we haven`t found optical transient  within SWIFT error-box 
(ra=251.825 dec=-45.8942 r=0.05).
The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 16.8 mag

The observations made on zenit distance = 21 degrees, galaxy latitude b = 
-1 degree.
The moon (76 % bright part) is 65 degrees above the horizon. The distance 
between  moon and  object is 45
The sun  altitude  is -52.6 degree.
The object can be observed till sunrise at 2017-05-16 11:18:43


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