[vsnet-grb-info 5644] GRB 080212: Gemini-South optical observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7304
SUBJECT: GRB 080212:  Gemini-South optical observations
DATE:    08/02/13 08:13:50 GMT
FROM:    Edo Berger at Princton U  <eberger at astro.princeton.edu>

E. Berger (Princeton) reports:

"A 900-sec spectrum obtained with Gemini-South/GMOS reveals that the 
object near the XRT position is a late-K star and not a galaxy as 
initially indicated in GCN 7294.

In a 60 sec r-band acquisition image we find a faint source coincident 
with the XRT position at:
 	RA = 15:24:35.4
 	DEC = -22:44:30	(J2000)

This object is consistent with the positions reoprted in GCNs 7302 and 
7303."