[AAVSO-HEN] GRB 090516: Faulkes Telescope South optical afterglow

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  9375
SUBJECT: GRB 090516: Faulkes Telescope South optical afterglow
DATE:    09/05/16 10:08:59 GMT
FROM:    Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy  <guidorzi at fe.infn.it>

C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), I. A. Steele, A. Melandri, D. Bersier,
C.J. Mottram, C.G.  Mundell, R.J. Smith (Liverpool JMU),
A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana),  P. O'Brien, N. Bannister,
N. Tanvir (U. Leicester) on behalf of a large collaboration report:

The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South reacted to the Swift burst
GRB 090516 (trigger=352190, Rowlinson et al. GCN 9374).

Observations started about 16.9 min after the trigger time with filters
BRi. Within the XRT error circle we found a fading source at the following
position (J2000):

RA:   09:13:02.62
Dec: -11:51:15.4

with an initial approximate magnitude of R~19 at 17 minutes post trigger.