[AAVSO-HEN] GRB080211: optical observations

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7331
SUBJECT: GRB080211: optical observations
DATE:    08/02/26 16:52:08 GMT
FROM:    Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen at iki.rssi.ru>

M. Andreev (Terskol Branch of Institute of Astronomy) V. Petkov, A. Kurenya 
(BNO INR RAS), A. Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf of larger GRB follow up 
collaboration  report:

We observed the GRB080211 (Hurley et al. GCN 7295, Golenetskii et al. GCN 
7309) with Zeiss-600 of Mt.Terskol observatory on Feb. 12 between (UT) 
17:10-17:21 in R-filter under poor weather conditions. Our observation 
covered  central part of the IPN error-box. Within IPN error-box (Hurley et 
al. GCN 7295), we found one source not presented in any DSS2 plates. 
Coordinates of the source are RA(J2000) = 02h55m50.9s,  Dec.(J2000) = +60 
05' 43.6". Photometry against of USNO-B1.0 is following

T0+  ,        Exposure,   R_mag
(mid time)

1.41d        10x30 s      17.3

Further examination of XRT and UVOT observation (Beardmore et al. GCN 7312) 
and additional observations are necessary to confirm the nature of the found 
source.

Finding chart and combined image can be found in 
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB080211

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