TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6078 SUBJECT: GRB 070208: Afterglow confirmation from P60 DATE: 07/02/08 10:37:30 GMT FROM: Derek Fox at PSU D. B. Fox (PSU), E. Ofek (Caltech) and S. B. Cenko (Caltech) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: "We have imaged the localization region for the afterglow of GRB 070208 (Sato et al., GCN 6074) with the robotic Palomar 60-inch telescope, in a series of exposures beginning at 09:15:33 UT, 5 minutes after the burst. We confirm the point-like, fading nature of the afterglow candidate reported by Guidorzi et al. (GCN 6077), although given the nearby (candidate host) galaxy (Mirabel & Halpern, GCN 6075; Guidorzi et al., GCN 6077) we cannot exclude the presence of underlying diffuse emission at this time. In our images the afterglow has i'~22 mag at 09:18 UT and i'~23.4 mag at 10:05 UT, corresponding to fading with power-law index alpha~-0.7 referenced to the burst epoch."