TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 871 SUBJECT: GRB000926: R-image of the host galaxy DATE: 00/11/01 17:23:20 GMT FROM: Johan U. Fynbo at ESO,Garching J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Moller (ESO, Garching) I. Burud (University of Liege), M. I. Andersen (University of Oulu), J. Gorosabel (DSRI, Copenhagen), J. Hjorth, B. L. Jensen, H. Pedersen (U. of Copenhagen) report : "Using the ALFOSC on the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope, we have obtained 4700sec of further R-band imaging of the Optical Transient (OT) of GRB 000926 (GCN #801, #803, #804) on 2000 October 27. The seeing was 1.1 arcsec. Near the position of the OT we detect extended emission, which most likely is from the host galaxy of GRB000926. There are several knots of emission. One of these knots coincides with the precise position of the OT. The magnitude of the galaxy measured in a circular aperture with diameter 5.7 arcsec is about R=23.9 in good agreement with estimates based on the flattening of the OT light-curve (GCN #840, #850). A 10.5x10.5 arcsec^2 section of the combined R-band image centred on the position of the OT (marked by a circle) can be seen at http://www.astro.ku.dk/~brian_j/grb/grb000926"