Re: possible naked eye gamma ray burster

From: Richard Crisp (rdcrisp@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 13:51:16 UTC

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    not likely to see now Helen and others. I tried to image it last night
    
    here are the results
    
    announcements:
    
    http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/20/biggest-ever-cosmic-explosion-observed-75-billion-light-years-away/
    
    http://www.aavso.org/publications/alerts/alert372.shtml
    
    Image:
    
    www.narrowbandimaging.com/images/grb080319B_crisp.jpg
    
    
    
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Helen Hart" <h_m_hart@yahoo.com>
    To: "SeeSat-L" <seesat-l@satobs.org>
    Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:49 AM
    Subject: possible naked eye gamma ray burster
    
    
    > Hi, all -
    >
    > In case some of you might have been watching this spot at the right
    > time.
    >
    > There was a Gamma Ray Burster March 19 in the constellation Bootes:
    > RA: 14 31 40.98 , Dec: +36 18 8.8 (J2000)
    >
    > Observers with any images of this field taken since 2008 March 19 0600
    > UT
    > are urgently asked to check these images for optical transients.
    >
    > Details are at the American Association of Variable Star Observers:
    >
    > http://www.aavso.org/publications/alerts/alert372.shtml
    >
    > Helen
    >
    > --
    > Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe,
    > and sometimes I think we're not.  In either case,
    > the idea is quite staggering.
    > --- Arthur C. Clarke, 16 December 1917 - 18 March 2008
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