TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  37255
SUBJECT: GRB 240824A: Skynet Optical Afterglow Discovery
DATE:    24/08/24 02:59:28 GMT
FROM:    Dylan Dutton at UNC Chapel Hill <ddutton59@gmail.com>

Dylan Dutton, Megan Dubay, Donovan Schlekat, Ruide Fu, Daniel Reichart, Joshua Haislip, Vladimir Kouprianov, James Davidson, Edward Murphy, and Carlos Salgado report on behalf of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

We observed the field of GRB 240824A with the RRRT telescope located in Virginia. The observation began at 01:49:13 UT on August 24 2024, roughly 46 minutes post-trigger by the Swift-BAT instrument.

We detected a bright object within the uncertainty radius of the Swift localization, at:
R.A. (J2000): 14:12:43.899
Dec. (J2000): 63:43:46.805

We report the discovery photometry below. The time of the exposure is the middle time.

Time Since GRB | Telescope | Filter | Exposure Duration | Mag	 | Mag Error 
2780s          | RRRT      | V      | 70s		| 15.227 | 0.024

Our images have been calibrated using stars from the APASS catalog. Additional Skynet observations are ongoing.