GCN Circular 3943
Subject
GRB 050908: Optical Observations
Date
2005-09-08T07:05:56Z (19 years ago)
From
Ken ichi Torii at RIKEN <torii@crab.riken.go.jp>
K. Torii (Osaka U.) reports:
"The error region of GRB 050908 (Goad et al. GCN 3942)
was observed by the 0.30 m telescope in the New Mexico Sky
Observatory. Several 120 s exposures were obtained in V, Rc, and Ic
bands starting at 05:56:25 UT (14 minutes after the burst).
We identify a low significance optical counterpart candidate at
R.A. 01:21:50.7
Dec. -12:57:16
(J2000, 1".5 uncertainty)
with an USNO-A2.0R magnitude of about 18.8."