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GCN Circular 7671

Subject
GRB 080430
Date
2008-05-03T18:03:09Z (17 years ago)
From
Francois Kugel at Obs.Chante-Perdix,04 Banon,Fr <fkugel@wanadoo.fr>
C.Rinner ; F.Kugel  report:

We are continuing with the monitoring of the afterglow (Klotz et al. GCN
7646) with the TEL 0.5-m f/3 reflector
located at Observatoire Chante-Perdix - 04 Banon, France (A77 mpc 
station, N43.9997 E5.6475)

The observations started at 20:39:12 (UT).
9 unfiltered exposures of 120s were carried out and weather conditions
were good.

We observe a weak reduction in magnitude

RA(J2000.0) = 11h 01m 14.76s
DEC(J2000.0) +51d 41' 08.3"
�0.3"

magnitude = 19.6 �0.3 one day after the burst.

Astrometry and magnitudes were measured with the  USNO-SA2.0 catalogue.

More information and picture here :

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/fkometes/pages/GRB080430.html
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