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GCN Circular 5868

Subject
GRB 061126: optical observation
Date
2006-11-27T02:43:01Z (17 years ago)
From
Ken ichi Torii at Osaka U <torii@ess.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp>
K. Torii (Osaka U.) reports:

 The error region of GRB 061126 (Sbarufatti et al. GCN 5854, 5855) was
observed with the 0.3m telescope in the New Mexico Skies Observatory.
Starting at 08:58:19 (623 s after the trigger time), ten frames of
120s exposure were acquired through Ic filter.

 The optical afterglow (Vanden Berk, GCN 5856) is detected and the
preliminary photometry relative to USNO-B1.0 I2 magnitude gave the
following measurements.

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StartUT	Filter	Mag		Nframes
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08:58:20 Ic	17.1 +/-0.2	1
09:01:20 Ic	17.0 +/-0.2 	1
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