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GCN Circular 5564

Subject
GRB060912: OPTIMA-Burst optical observations
Date
2006-09-12T22:03:59Z (18 years ago)
From
Alexander Stefanescu at MPE <astefan@mpe.mpg.de>
A. Stefanescu, F. Schrey, S. Duscha, M. Muehlegger, N. Primak,
G. Kanbach, H. Steinle (MPE Garching) of the OPTIMA-Burst Team report 
the following:

"OPTIMA-Burst at the 1.3m Skinakas Observatory, of the University of
Crete, Greece observed the Swift XRT-errorcircle of GRB 060912 (GCN 
Circ. 5558, C.P. Hurkett et al.) starting at 19:21UT (~5.5h after the 
Burst).

We detect a source consistent with the source reported by C.P. Hurkett 
et al. and M. Zhai et al. (GCN Circ. 5560). We estimate the magnitude of 
the source as R=21.6 +- 0.2

There is no known minor planet brighter than 23 mag within 5' of the 
source according to MPChecker"
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