[vsnet-grb-info 3638] GRB060825: BOOTES-IR optical observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  5472
SUBJECT: GRB060825: BOOTES-IR optical observations
DATE:    06/08/25 05:24:44 GMT
FROM:    Antonio Deugarte at IAA-CSIC  <deugarte at iaa.es>

A. de Ugarte Postigo, J.Gorosabel, M. Jelinek, R. Cunniffe,
S. Vitek, A.J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada),P. Kubanek (ASU AV CR
Ondrejov & ISDC Versoix) and L.D. Sabau-Graziati (INTA Torrejon de
Ardoz, Madrid) report

Main text:
"The BOOTES-IR 0.6m telescope, located at IAA-CSIC Observatorio de
Sierra  Nevada in Granada (Spain), observed the SWIFT error box for 
GRB 060825 (Sato et al. GCNC 5471) starting at 03:26 UT in R-band.

We detect an object on the edge of the XRT error box at coordinates 
R.A.= 01:12:29.58, Dec. = +55:47:43.8 (J2000) with estimated 
uncertanity of 0.7 arcsec  which might be present at the DSS2 
image.

A finding chart will be soon available at:
www.iaa.es/~deugarte/GRBs/060825/grb060825.gif

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