GCN Circular 9514
Subject
GRB 090618: KAIT optical afterglow
Event
Date
2009-06-18T08:52:20Z (16 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley <dperley@astro.berkeley.edu>
D. A. Perley reports on behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) responded to GRB 090618
and began taking data at 08:31:10 (UT). A bright (~14th magnitude)
optical afterglow is visible in the initial set of exposures at the
following position:
RA 19:35:58.80
dec +78:21:25.5
Further follow-up is in progress.