GCN Circular 8596
Subject
GRB081203: optical observation
Date
2008-12-03T15:01:11Z (15 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
M. Andreev, A. Sergeev, (Terskol Branch of Institute of Astronomy), Ju.
Babina (CrAO) A. Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf of larger GRB follow up
collaboration report:
We observed the field of GRB 081203 detected by SWIFT ( with the Z-600
telescope of Mt. Terskol observatory. A few first unfiltered images confirm
the presence bright afterglow detected by UVOT Parsons et al, GCN Parsons)
in coordinates (J2000) 15 32 07.75 +63 31 15.04. A preliminary photometry
at Dec.03 (UT) 14:29:30 against USNO-A2.0 (R) is 14.9 mag. Observation is
continuing.