GCN Circular 8238

D. Fugazza, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, L.A. Antonelli,
L. Calzoletti,  S. Campana, G.  Chincarini, M.L. Conciatore, S. Cutini,   
V. D'Elia,  F. D'Alessio, F.  Fiore, P. Goldoni, D. Guetta,  C.  
Guidorzi, G.L. Israel, E. Maiorano, N. Masetti, A. Melandri, E.   
Meurs, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, L.  Stella,   
G.  Stratta, G. Tagliaferri, G. Tosti, V.Testa, S.D. Vergani, F.   
Vitali report on behalf of the REM team:


The robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile) observed  
automatically the field of the GRB 080916 on
Sep 16 starting from about 20 s after the GRB time. We see a source  
not present in the 2MASS catalogue with approximately H~14.5 one  
minute after the burst at the coordinates RA=22:25:06.19,  
DEC=-57:01:24.1 (error 1 arcsec).

Further observations are in progress.

[GCN OPS NOTE(16sep08):  The author requests that people should use
the 8238 Circular as the primary source.  The 8239 Circular was
the result of multiple efforts of a distributed team.]
[GCN OPS NOTE(16sep08): Per author's request, DM was removed
from the author list.]