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GCN Circular 7833

Subject
GRB080605: optical observations
Date
2008-06-06T04:22:14Z (17 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
V. Rumyantsev (CrAO),  A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of larger GRB 
follow-up collaboration:

We observed the optical afterglow (Kann,  et al., GCN 7829; Holland et al., 
GCN 7830; Gomboc et al., GCN 7831) of  Swift GRB 080605 (Sbarufatti  et al., 
GCN 7828) in R and I bands on June 05  Zeiss-1000 (Simeiz) telescope of CrAO 
observatory under not optimal weather conditions.  Based on  USNO-B1.0 star 
RA (J2000) = 17 28 29.92, Dec.
(J2000) = +04 00 36.5, R2=15.90 we estimated brightness of  the optical 
afterglow in first frames:

UT,       Exposure,   R_mag,
(start time)

2008-06-05T23:55:58    120 s     17.9
2008-06-06T00:00:34    120 s     18.4

During observations the afterglow is clearly faded.
Coordinates of the afterglow with uncertainties of 0.3":

RA(2000):  17 28 30.01
Dec(2000): +04 00 56.4

A finding chart can be found at 
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB080605/grb080605_080605_z1000.gif
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