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GCN Circular 7469

Subject

GRB 080319B: optical observations

Date

2008-03-20T00:35:10Z (17 years ago)

From

Martin Jelinek at Inst.Astrophys.Andalucia,Granada <mates@iaa.es>

Martin Jelinek, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada),
Virginie Chantry (Universit� de Liege) and
Jorge Pl� (IAC La Laguna), on behalf of a larger collaboration,

report:

"We are imaging the naked eye GRB 080319B detected by Swift
(GCN 7427Loading...
 
 ) using.both the 1.2m Mercator Telescope at Obs. del
Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, and the 0.8m IAC80 at
Obs. del Teide in Tenerife. Our R-band magnitude measured on
an image starting at 22:56UT (16.75 hr after the burst) is
about R=21.0. Further images are planned throughout the whole
night."

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-- 
Martin Jelinek, +420602105255, +34617840945, sirrah.cz/mates
       Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada

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