TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  2888
SUBJECT: GRB 041218 Optical Observations
DATE:    04/12/20 19:26:04 GMT
FROM:    Shashi Bhushan Pandey at State Obs.Nainital,India  <shashi@upso.ernet.in>

Kuntal Misra and S. B. Pandey (ARIES NainiTal), on behalf of
larger Indian GRB collaboration

We observed INTEGRAL GRB 041218 localization by Mereghetti et al. (GCN 
2858) using 1.04m telescope at ARIES NainiTal, starting from Dec 19.66 
UT. Several R_c band frames were observed in thin cloudy conditions. 
In a 300sec x 5 averaged frame, we put an upper limit of ~ 21 mag around 
1.0 day after the burst at the OT position by Torii K. (GCN 2860), in 
comparison to the nearby stars using the field photometry by Henden 
(GCN 2869).

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