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GCN Circular 2737

Subject
GRB040924: MASTER Optical observations
Date
2004-09-24T18:06:17Z (20 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V. Lipunov, A.Krylov, V.Kornilov, G.Borisov, D.Kuvshinov, A.Belinski,
M.Kuznetsov,  S.Potanin, G.Antipov, E.Gorbovskoy, N.Tyurina
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Alexsandr Krylov Observatory, Moscow

At 5h 21m  after  HETE alert 3564   MASTER robotic telescope
(http://observ.pereplet.ru) had imaging  the corresponding area of the
sky under the large zenit distance.
The first image was started at 17h13m34s UT.

Now we have 15 unfiltered images of the error box (45s exposition, 40 x 50
arcmin, 200 mm camera).

Ther is no optical transient up to 17.5 m on all images and at position
given Fox and Moon (GCN2734).
Our unfiltred magnitude close to R filter.


Sum FITS image  are available at
http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB040924/

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