GCN Circular 6412
Subject
GRB 070517: Optical search
Date
2007-05-17T14:55:18Z (17 years ago)
From
Alan Gilmore at U of Canterbury,Mt John Obs <alan.gilmore@canterbury.ac.nz>
A. C. Gilmore (Mt John Observatory of the University of Canterbury) reports:
A total of 1200 seconds clear CCD exposures of the GRB 070517 region were taken
with the 1-m f/7.7 reflector at Mt John Observatory in poor (3.5") seeing . The
exposure set was centred on May 17 14:01 UT, 2.7 hours after the burst.
No new object was seen to the limit of DSS-2 infrared in a 5' x 5' region
approximately centred on the revised position of Vergani et al at (J2000) RA 18h
30m 30s Dec -62d 17' 50".