MASTER OT J230448.20+324534.1 - follow-up of this optical transient
ATel #6422; G. Masi, P. L. Catalano (The Virtual Telescope Project)
on 27 Aug 2014; 14:02 UT
Credential Certification: Vladimir Lipunov (lipunov2007@gmail.com)
Subjects: Optical, Gamma Ray, Gamma-Ray Burst, Transient
We managed to perform some optical follow-up on the OT
reported by Tiurina et al. (ATel #6419), remotely using the
17" robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project,
Italy.
A 600-seconds exposure, unfiltered, centered on 26.9248 Aug.
2014 clearly shows the source mentioned by Tiurina at
al.(our end figures: 48.19"; 34.9"; J2000.0, based on
UCAC-4). We estimated a magnitude of 18.9 (using R mags from
UCAC-4 for the reference stars, the QE of our CCD devive
peaking in the red part of the spectrum).
So, this transient is NOT fading.
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