{
  "bibcode": "2008GCN..7743....1S",
  "body": "R.J. Smith (Liverpool JMU), A. Gomboc (Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia),\nA. Melandri, C. Guidorzi, M. Burgdorf, C.G. Mundell, I.A. Steele, D. \nCarter, A. Monfardini, C.J. Mottram, S. Kobayashi, D. Bersier (Liverpool \nJMU) report:\n\nThe 2-m Liverpool Telescope started observing the field of GRB 080517 \n(Parsons et al. GCN 7742) at 3 min after the trigger time.\n\nNo optical transient has been located in our images to the following \nmagnitude limits:\n\nFilter      t_mid (min from GRB)    Exp (s)       Lim\n------------------------------------------------------------------\nR             16.08                  120          19.6\nI             18.93                  120          19.2\n------------------------------------------------------------------\nMagnitudes were calibrated vs the USNOB1 catalogue.\n\nIn particular, comparison with Digitized Sky Survey images shows no \nobvious additional optical source in the vicinity of the known, \nmoderately bright object noted to be within the XRT error circle.\n\nObservations stopped one hour after the burst time. No further \nobservations are currently planned.",
  "circularId": 7743,
  "createdOn": 1211065750000,
  "email": "rjs@astro.livjm.ac.uk",
  "subject": "GRB080517: Liverpool Telescope Optical Observations",
  "submitter": "James Smith at ARI,Liverpool John Moors U  <rjs@astro.livjm.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 080517"
}