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GCN Circular 8672

Subject
GRB 0811215A: MASTER prompt optical observations
Date
2008-12-15T19:54:49Z (16 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, 
D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa, V.V.Chazov
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University

A. Tlatov, A.V. Parhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh
Ural State University, Kourovka


S.Yazev, K.Ivanov
Irkutsk State University

One of the four  MASTER Very Wide Field Cameras located at Kislovodsk
(http://apollo.sai.msu.ru/, D=50 mm, 4x1000 square degrees, 35'' per pix)
has observed  Fermi  error box  (Trig Num 251059717) with 5s exposures during 
all night without time gap between images.
The synhronous with GRB time image with M31 (Andromeda) are available

http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB081215A/film_grb.html

We have dosen alert images on the new wide field MASTER telescope (FOW 8 
square degrees up to 17 mag), that it just tested now 
(http://www.pereplet.ru/lipunov/257.html#257). 
The message may be cited.

mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru
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