TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9027 SUBJECT: GRB 090323: P60 Afterglow Confirmation DATE: 09/03/24 05:55:03 GMT FROM: S. Bradley Cenko at Caltech S. B. Cenko and D. A. Perley (UC Berkeley) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We have imaged the field of GRB090323 (Ohno et al., GCN 9021) with the automated Palomar 60-inch telescope. Observations were taken in the Sloan r' and i' filters beginning at 2009 Mar 24 04:20 UT (~ 28.30 hr after the burst). Inside the XRT error circle (Kennea et al., GCN 9024) we find a single source consistent with the position repored by Updike et al (GCN 9026). At this epoch we measure magnitudes of r' = 20.5, i' = 20.0, suggesting the source has faded since the observations reported therein (referenced with respected to several nearby SDSS sources). We therefore confirm this object is the afterglow of GRB090323.