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080409 Finder Charts

The finder chart will help you find the star field. The error chart is what you want to compare your images with to look for a GRB afterglow.

30x30 arc minute DSS finder chart (1st generation)
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080409-dss-finder-negate.jpg
080409-dss-finder-masked.jpg (Error circle drawn)

6minx6min arc minute DSS chart covering the error pattern only (up to 30 arc minutes)
080409-dss-error.jpg
080409-dss-error-negate.jpg

GSC2.2 Photometry
Minor Planet List

Dust extinction in this area is

Av =  2.358 (mag)   according to the
IPAC Dust Extinction Map Tool
Click for a GRB Real-time Sky Map at Sonoma State
DSS Infrared chart covering error pattern only
080409-dss-ir.jpg

This resource has made use of the USNOFS Image and Catalogue Archive operated by the United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station (http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/).