[vsnet-grb-info 7704] GRB090426: Observation for Optical counterpart from MIRO

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  9258
SUBJECT: GRB090426: Observation for Optical counterpart from MIRO
DATE:    09/04/26 16:36:42 GMT
FROM:    Kiran S Baliyan at Physical Research Lab, Ahmedabad,India  <baliyan at prl.res.in>

 K.S. Baliyan, Sunil Chandra and  J.K. Jain (MIRO-PRL, Ahmedabad, India)
report:

We observed the field around the position of the optical counterpart of
GRB 090426 (Cummings et al GCN 9254, Xin et GCN 9255) usinmg 1.2m
telescope and 1296x1152 pixels CCD. The observations were made in white
band (4x60s), R band (4x120s) starting at UT 14:41:05 on April 26, 2009.
After a careful comparison with the DSS field, we did not notice any new
source near (couple of arcsecs) the said position of the optical afterglow
of GRB 090426 as reported in GCNs 9254 & 9255, down to the limit of 19.3
in R.
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