[Aavso-photometry] Re:GRB060218

[Richard Huziak]

In very poor skies last eve, I seem to have managed to image this GRB 
'afterglow', though SNR is very low - around 2.5 in V and 4.0 in B after 
300 second exposures.  Scope is a 12" f/10 w/ ST-9XME.   Since sky was 
deteriorating, I could only get 5 frames in each colour, and stacking 
improved SNR slightly.  

I am assuming that I am not imaging the underlying galaxy but maybe the 
supernova at this time.  The GRB 'glow' seems to be slightly extended - 
a patch with a slight diameter as opposed to a point-source, but this is 
mostly an impression - the image is hard to see.  WAG magnitude would be 
somewhere around 17th (though I haven't reduced the frames yet.

Are others having success in imaging this?  

Wish I had clear skies!

Rick (HUZ)

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Richard Huziak
Manufacturing Engineering
SED Systems
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
tel. (306) 933-1676
<huziak at SEDSystems.ca>
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