[vsnet-grb-info 13068] GRB 130420A: Faulkes Telescope North candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  14405
SUBJECT: GRB 130420A: Faulkes Telescope North candidate
DATE:    13/04/20 07:46:12 GMT
FROM:    Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy  <guidorzi at fe.infn.it>

C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB),
D. Kopac, A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), on behalf of a
large collaboration report:

The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing
GRB 130420A at 4.35 minutes from the Swift/BAT trigger time.
The automatic LT-TRAP procedure identified a bright uncatalogued
object at the following position:

RA=   13:04:25.57
Dec= +59:25:26.7

(J2000.0).
Its magnitude is estimated to be 15.9 in the R band.