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GCN Circular 4725

Subject
GRB 060210: candidate afterglow
Date
2006-02-10T05:28:55Z (19 years ago)
From
Weidong Li at UC Berkeley KAIT/LOSS <weidong@astron.berkeley.edu>
W. Li, University of California, Berkeley, on behalf of the 
KAIT GRB team, report: 

The robotic 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT)
at Lick Observatory observed GRB060210 detected with Swift
(Trigger 180977).  We identied an new object at the 
following position in an unfiltered 15s image started at
04:59:53 UT (63.2s after the burst):

RA = 03:50:57.35   Dec = +27:01:34.1 (J2000.)

the candidate afterglow is at mag 18.1 when calibrated to 
USNO B1.0 catalog. Further observations are ongoing.
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