[AAVSO-HEN] GRB080328 OT (2nd opinion)

[Patrick Wiggins]

After reading my earlier post Arto Oksanen emailed a request to see  
my images.

I was hesitant to share them because they are not the best quality  
(the GRB was so low in my sky that part of the aperture was looking  
at my observatory wall, plus I was in such a rush I didn't take time  
to get a good focus).

But I did send them and Arto says he can see the GRB (albeit very  
faintly) in at least one of the images.

If other would care to have a look I have posted the reduced (master  
dark and flat applied) FITS images at:

http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/GRB080328-01.ZIP

Plus Arto has posted them at:

http://murtoinen.dyndns.org/ccd/Arto/grb080328/

Arto also prepared small JPGs showing the field in a Digital Sky  
Survey R-band:

http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/dss2r.jpg

And the same field from one of my images with what he suspects is the  
GRB indicated:

http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/paw_grb.jpg

Image scale is 1.1"/pixel.

All opinions welcome,

patrick
718

On 28 Mar 2008, at 02:47, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
> I received the alert at 08:10 and was imaging the area within 11
> minutes down to magnitude 19 but it had already faded by then.
>
> Maybe next time...
>
> patrick
> 718
>
> On 28 Mar 2008, at 02:36, Arto Oksanen wrote:
>> Swift UVOT optical afterglow is 17.7 mag:
>>
>> GRB_RA:        +05h 21m 55.82s} (J2000)
>> GRB_DEC:      +47d 30' 38.8"} (J2000)
>>
>> arto
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Bacodine <vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>> Date: 28.3.2008 10:29
>> Subject:
>> To: gcnalerts at jklsirius.fi
>>
>>
>> GCN/SWIFT-UVOT
>>  Position
>>  RA=80.6375d  DEC=+47.5183d
>>  ERR=0.36arcsec
>>  T=08:06:41.00 UT
>>  I=17.70 mag
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