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GCN Circular 5567

Subject
GRB060912: optical observations
Date
2006-09-13T00:40:52Z (18 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
B. Hafizov,  M. Ibrahimov  (MAO),  A. Pozanenko (IKI), on behalf of larger
GRB follow up collaboration report:

We observed the afterglow of GRB060912 (Hurkett et al. GCN 5558) with 1.5m
telescope of Maidanak Astronomical Observatory (MAO) in BR-bands on
September 12  between  (UT) 17:25 and 19:30.  The afterglow candidate
(Hurkett et al. GCN 5558,   Zhai et al. GCN 5560) is detected on a single
120 s images. Preliminary photometry of the optical transient in R-band at
Sep. 12 17:30 (UT)  is R~20.5m.
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