TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  5165
SUBJECT: GRB 060526: Watcher Observations
DATE:    06/05/26 20:09:37 GMT
FROM:    John French at UCD,Ireland  <jfrench@bermuda.ucd.ie>

John French (University College Dublin),
Martin Jelinek (IAA Granada),

on behalf of the Watcher collaboration report:

The Watcher 40cm robotic telescope, located at Boyden Observatory, South 
Africa, began imaging the field of GRB 060526 (Barthelmy et al., GCN 
5162) at 16:29:07, 36.2 seconds after the Swift trigger (19.6 seconds 
after the GCN notice).

Preliminary analysis shows a varying source, consistent with the 
position of the OT detected in the UVOT observations, with an R-band 
magnitude of ~15 at T~60s. Analysis is on-going.

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