TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7177 SUBJECT: XRF 080109 in NGC2770: NIR observations at TNG DATE: 08/01/13 13:36:46 GMT FROM: Angelo Antonelli at Obs. Astro. di Roma L.A. Antonelli (INAF/OAR), S. Valenti (Universita' di Ferrara), D. Fugazza (INAF/OABr), V. D'Elia (INAF/OAR), E. Maiorano (INAF/IASF Bo), A. Magazzu' and N. Pinilla-Alonso (INAF/TNG), report on behalf of the CIBO collaboration: We imaged the field of the galaxy NGC 2770 with the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) [La Palma (Canary Islands)] equipped with NICS in the J,H,K bands. Observations were performed on 2008 Jan 11, starting at 05:04:25 UT for a total exposure time of about 360 s in each filter. The source reported by Deng & Zhu (GCN 7160), Thoene et al. (GCN 7161) and D'Elia et al. (GCN7162), is clearly detected in all bands with the following magnitudes: J=16.60+-0.13, H=16.33+-0.12, K=16.09+-0.12 extimated using the 2MASS catalogue. TNG NIR measures are consistent with those reported by Modjaz et al. (GCN 7175 ). Further analysis is underway. GCN OPS NOTE(15jan08): Per author's request, the last sentence in the second paragraph was added.]