TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 2363 SUBJECT: GRB 030824: Candidate Afterglow (or Variable/Flare Star?) DATE: 03/08/25 09:59:50 GMT FROM: Jane Moran at U.North Carolina J. Moran, M. Nysewander, D. Reichart, P. Yim, C. Zdanowicz, and J. Reichart report on behalf of the UNC GRB team of the FUN GRB collaboration: We are currently observing the error region of GRB 030824 (HETE 2821) with the 0.6-meter Morehead Observatory telescope in R band through haze and fog. We detect a source that does not appear in DSS/POSS-II or 2MASS, at: RA: 00:04:36 DEC: 19:48:57 This source is near our detection limit, but is clearly visible in most of our individual frames, which now span many hours. We tentatively estimate its magnitude to be R ~ 17. We cannot rule out the possibility of a variable/flare star. A more detailed analysis will follow.