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GCN Circular 9613

Subject
GRB 090618: Mondy optical observations
Date
2009-07-04T00:32:08Z (15 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
E. Klunko (ISTP), A. Volnova (SAI MSU), A. Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf of 
larger GRB follow up collaboration  report:

We observed the afterglow (Schady  et al., GCN 9512; Cenko et al., GCN 9513; 
Perley, GCN 9514; Rujopakarn et al., GCN 9515) of  the Swift GRB 090618 
between  (UT) Jun. 18  18:14 -- 18:43  with 1.5m telescope of Sayan 
observatory (Mondy).   The afterglow is  detected in stacked images. 
Preliminary photometry of the stacked images based on USNO-B1.0 star
1683-0077955 (RA=19 36 36.34   Dec=+78 21 07.00) assuming R=16.57  is 
following:

T0+     Filter, Exposure, mag.,     err.
(d)             (s)

0.4083   R       10x30     18.60 +/-0.10
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