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GCN Circular 6307

Subject
GRB070330: Correction to UVOT position
Date
2007-04-19T12:52:41Z (17 years ago)
From
Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift <ps@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
P. Schady (MSSL-UCL), D. Grupe (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team

An error has been noted in the UVOT position for the optical afterglow of 
GRB 070330 (GCN 6238). There is a typo in the RA expressed as degrees. The 
correct refined UVOT afterglow position is
RA (J2000)  = 17:58:09.98 (269.5416)
Dec (J2000) = -63:47:34.80,6 (-63.7930)
to a certainty of 0.5".
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