TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1848 SUBJECT: GRB 030115, late-time optical observations DATE: 03/02/03 16:42:29 GMT FROM: Peter Garnavich at U of Notre Dame P. Garnavich (University of Notre Dame) The field of GRB 030115 (HETE 2533) was imaged with the 3.5m WIYN telescope on 2003 Jan. 29.4 (UT). Five R-band images of 600s each were combined with an average seeing of 0.9". At the position of the IR transient reported by Levan et al. (GCN 1818) and Vrba et al. (GCN 1822) there is a faint source which is probably the host galaxy. If the USNO catalog star 14" west has R=18.8, then the brightness of the host is R=24.5 mag. Another galaxy 1.3" east appears nearly blended with the host. An image is available at http://www.nd.edu/~pgarnavi/grb030115.jpg . This message may be cited.