TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7258 SUBJECT: INT+WFC R-band observations of GRB 080205 DATE: 08/02/06 03:12:46 GMT FROM: Evert Rol at U.Leicester E. Rol (U. of Leicester) and J. Anderson (LJMU) report for a larger collaboration: We observed the position of GRB 080205 with the Isaac Newton Telescope equipped with the Wide Field Camera at Roque de Los Muchachos. Observations were carried out in R-band, for 30 minutes starting at 23:05 UT. We detect the afterglow with a magnitude of R = 23.50 +/- 0.11; our photometry is calibrated to several USNO B1.0 R2 magnitudes. Compared with the early (unfiltered) 17.0 magnitude KAIT measurement (Li et al., GCN 7251), this indicates a slightly shallower powerlaw decay than the initial -1.6 (Li et al, GCN 7254), suggestive of underlying contamination by a host galaxy. At the source position, however, there is no clear evidence for extended emission.