TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  21546
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo G298048: MASTER observations of the NGC 4993
DATE:    17/08/18 05:37:59 GMT
FROM:    Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs  <lipunov2007@gmail.com>

V.M.  Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, V.G.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, V.Shumkov, D.Kuvshinov, 
P.Balanutsa,  O.Gress, A.Kuznetsov, M.I.Panchenko, A.V.Krylov, I.Gorbunov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute

R.Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA) , National University of San
Juan, Argentina

H. Levato, C. Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas,de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE),
San Juan, Argentina

N.M. Budnev, O. Gress, K. Ivanov, S.Yazev
Irkutsk State University

V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko, A.Gabovich
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk

D.Buckley, S. Potter, M. Kotze,
  South African Astronomical Observatory

R. Rebolo, M. Serra-Ricart, G. Israelian, N.Lodiu
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

A. Tlatov, V.Sennik
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

MASTER-OAFA have imaged the BAYESTAR localization map of LIGO/Virgo 
G298048 (GCN 21513). We have images of  NGC 4993 galaxy starting 
2017-08-17 23:59:54UT with 19.5 limit.
We see object detected by S. Allam et al., (GCN 21530).

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[GCN OPS NOTE(18aug17): Per author's request, the ID number
in the Subject-line was changed from G297595 to G298048.]