[vsnet-grb-info 6010] GRB 080430: Bootes observation

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7648
SUBJECT: GRB 080430: Bootes observation
DATE:    08/04/30 20:21:25 GMT
FROM:    Martin Jelinek at Inst.Astrophys.Andalucia,Granada  <mates at iaa.es>

M. Jelinek, P. Kubanek, J. Gorosabel, A. J. Castro-Tirado, F.
Aceituno (IAA-CSIC Granada), L. Sabau-Graziati (INTA Madrid),
A. de Ugarte Postigo (ESO Santiago), R. Hudec (ASU-CAS
Ondrejov), P. Perez-Gonzalez and J.  Zamorano (UCM Madrid)
report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

The BOOTES-1 0.3m telescope in South Spain observed GRB
080413A, starting at 19:53:36 UT (34 sec after the GRB). A
sequence of preprogrammed 6 sec, 20 and 60 sec exposures was
obtained. We find an optical counterpart at the coordinates
(J2000)

11:01:14.777  +51:41:08.61

with an unfiltered magnitude ~17.0 at ~60s after the GRB.

We continue observing the object with the 1.5m telescope at
Observatorio Sierra Nevada, which confirms the reality of the
object.


-- 
Martin Jelinek, +420602105255, +34617840945, sirrah.cz/mates
       Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada

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