TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  4838
SUBJECT: GRB 060218/SN 2006aj:  K-380 optical observations
DATE:    06/02/27 12:07:53 GMT
FROM:    Sergei Guziy at IAA  <gss@iaa.es>

Elena Pavlenko(CrAO, Crimea), Alex Shlyapnikov (CrAO,Crimea),
Sergey Guziy (IAA-CSIC, Granada) , on behalf of a larger collaboration, 
report:

"We imaged the field of GRB 060218 (Cusumano et al., GCNs 4775, 4781)
with the  K-380 Cassegrain  telescope of the Crimean Astrophysical 
Observatory.
Observations of the afterglow  have been carried out  on 2006 Feb 20 - 
Feb 23.
A series of 2-minute exposures in R(Johnson) band were acquired. 
Calibration was
based on the SDSS  catalog. On Feb 20 19:18 - 20:00 UT  for 20 combined 
images,
afterglow has magnitude R = 18.00 +/- 0.06 and displayed the brightening 
 of 0.15 mag/day.
Further observations are planned."

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