Patrick, Second .jpg image is a copy of the first. No image shown, just position data. What does it look like in your images? Dave On Apr 27, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I just head from someone overseas that the "whateveritis" is still there. This is weird. GRBs and then aftermaths just don't act this way.
If the clouds continue to thin I'm going to try for it again tonight and I invite others to do the same.
For those who might be interested I've posted a couple of images:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/mystery/mystery01.jpg shows the light curve as generated using two different softwares
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/mystery/mystery01.jpg shows the POSS image of the field on the left and one of my very hazed and mooned shots of the same FOV with the object arrowed.
patrick
On 27 Apr 2013, at 03:16, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
I received an email notice about an hour ago about indicating a possible gamma ray burst.
They're almost always faint and don't last very long but I figured I'd give it a try anyway.
The notice said the satellite that detected it put it at:
11h 32m 32.68s (J2000) +27d 42' 46.4" (J2000)
I was surprised to actually find something there. I've shot many a GRB field before but this was the first time I caught something.
I checked the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey and it shows nothing where the mystery object is in my images.
But the weird thing is this thing, whatever it is, is still there more than an hour after detection.
My first image shows it at an unfiltered magnitude of 13.2. The most recent image puts it at 14.8.
The fading appeared to be leveling off there for a bit but now seems to be accelerating again.
If anyone else happens to be imaging at the moment I'd sure appreciate a confirmation image.
Thanks,
patrick
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