[AAVSO-HEN] GRB 080319B: optical observations

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7469
SUBJECT: GRB 080319B: optical observations
DATE:    08/03/20 00:35:10 GMT
FROM:    Martin Jelinek at Inst.Astrophys.Andalucia,Granada  <mates at iaa.es>

Martin Jelinek, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada),
Virginie Chantry (Université de Liege) and
Jorge Plá (IAC La Laguna), on behalf of a larger collaboration,

report:

"We are imaging the naked eye GRB 080319B detected by Swift
(GCN 7427) using.both the 1.2m Mercator Telescope at Obs. del
Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, and the 0.8m IAC80 at
Obs. del Teide in Tenerife. Our R-band magnitude measured on
an image starting at 22:56UT (16.75 hr after the burst) is
about R=21.0. Further images are planned throughout the whole
night."

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-- 
Martin Jelinek, +420602105255, +34617840945, sirrah.cz/mates
       Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada

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