GCN Circular 3274
Subject
GRB050416: Maidanak optical observations
Event
Date
2005-04-16T17:45:24Z (21 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
B. Kahharov, M. Ibrahimov, D. Sharapov (MAO), A.Pozanenko (IKI)
V.Rumyantsev (CrAO), G.Beskin (SAO) on behalf of larger collaboration
report:
We observed the Swift GRB050416 (Sakamoto et al. GCN3264) with 1.5m
telescope of the Maidanak Astronomical Observatory (MAO), Uzbekistan The
observation started at (UT) 15:34 , April 16 in R and B bands. We found a
source at the position afterglow (Cenko & Fox GCN3265). A preliminary
R-photometry of first frames against of USNO-B1.0 Catalog is the following:
Mean time Exposure Mag.
(UT) (s)
15:44 3x300 20.85 +/- 0.12
Observation is continuing.