[AAVSO-HEN] GRB 080710: KAIT OA candidate

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7959
SUBJECT: GRB 080710: KAIT OA candidate
DATE:    08/07/10 09:46:14 GMT
FROM:    Weidong Li at UC Berkeley KAIT/LOSS  <weidong at astron.berkeley.edu>

W. Li, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, and A. V. Filippenko,
University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of the KAIT
GRB team, report:

KAIT responded to GRB 080710 (Swift trigger 316534; Sbarufatti et al.,
GCN 7957; Sbarufatti et al., GCN 7958) and started to take images at
09:10:20 UT, 1.953 hours after the BAT trigger. There is an optical
afterglow at position

RA = 00:33:05.64
DEC = +19:30:05.7
(equinox J2000)

The measured magnitude is R = 16.8 in a 20s unfiltered image,
calibrated to USNO B1. Observations are ongoing.