TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5674 SUBJECT: GRB 060908: Detection of a possible host DATE: 06/10/01 17:35:50 GMT FROM: Christina Thoene at Niels Bohr Institute,DARK Cosmo Ctr Christina C. Thoene (DARK Cosmology Centre), Christina Henriksen (DARK, NOT) and Klaas Wiersema (Univ. of Amsterdam) report: We observed the field of GRB060908 on Sep. 21 and 23 with ALFOSC at the NOT on La Palma in V, R and i under variable conditions. Near the position of the afterglow (GCN 5544), we detect a faint, extended source in stacked images in V (7x600s) and R (10x600s), which we assume to be the host galaxy of GRB060908. The possible host is not visible in 7x600s stacked images in the i band which might be due to severe fringing in the i band images. Photometry of the source gives values of V=24.9 +-0.1, R=25.12 +-0.05 and i>24.6 +-0.2 using photometric zeropoints from the NOT/ALFOSC webpage. An image of the host in the R-band can be found at www.astro.ku.dk/~cthoene/GRBs/