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GCN Circular 6721

Subject
GRB070808: Optical observations with KANATA
Event
GRB 070808
Date
2007-08-08T19:42:51Z (18 years ago)
From
Makoto Uemura at Hiroshima U <uemuram@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
M. Uemura, A. Arai, M. Sasada, M. Isogai, T. Uehara (Hiroshima Univ.),
and D. Nogami (Kyoto Univ.) report on behalf of the KANATA GRB team:

  We started optical imaging of the field of GRB070808 (GCN 6718) 
at 18:29:38 UT 8 Aug. using TRISPEC attached to the KANATA 
1.5-m telescope at Higashi-Hiroshima Observatory, Japan.  
Exposure times for Rc-band images are 30 sec.  

No new object was significantly detected.  
In our first image, a limit magnitude was estimated from 
neighbour USNO A2.0 stars as below:

18:29:53 UT 8 Aug.  20.5  Rc  

Follow-up observations are ongoing.
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