TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  37
SUBJECT: GRB980329 optical observations
DATE:    98/04/01 17:06:12 GMT
FROM:    Adriano Guarnieri at U. of Bologna  <adriano@astbo3.bo.astro.it>

A. Guarnieri, C. Bartolini, A. Piccioni, Universita' di Bologna, G. Clementini 
and G. Valentini, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna;
A. Castro-Tirado and Javier Gorosabel, Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y
                                 Fisica Fundamental (LAEFF-INTA, Madrid);
A. Pedrosa, Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto;
M.R. Zapatero-Osorio, A. Alonso, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, IAC, 
                                 Tenerife;
J. Greiner, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam;
E. Costa, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Frascati,
                                 on behalf of the BeppoSAX team;

report:

R-band images containing the error box for 1SAX J0702.6+3850 (IAUC 6854)
were obtained on Mar 29.79 and 30.81 at the 1.52-m telescope at Bologna 
Observatory, on Mar 29.90, 30.91 and 31.95 at the 1.0-m Jacobus Kapteyn 
Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands, and on Mar 31.02 and 31.92 at the OAN 
1.52-m telescope at the German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory.  No variable 
object is found down to R = 22.  Any variation was smaller than 0.3.
Observations at other wavelenghts, especially infrared, are encouraged.