TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  3398
SUBJECT: GRB 050505: SARA Observations
DATE:    05/05/09 19:03:38 GMT
FROM:    Autumn Homewood at Clemson U  <ahomewo@clemson.edu>

Autumn Homewood, Dieter H. Hartmann (Clemson), Matt Wood (FIT)

Report on behalf of the Follow-Up-Network (FUN) GRB collaboration:

We observed a 8x12 arcminute field centered on the optical afterglow (GCN
3366) of GRB 050505 discovered by Swift (GCN 3360) with the SARA 0.9 m
Telescope at KPNO. Observations were carried out under good seeing
conditions with the U55 CCD. We obtained 35 minutes of exposure in R.
Observations started at UT 05/05/06 03:03:37, and ended 03:43:43. We do
not detect the afterglow. Our R-band upper limit (1-sigma) is R(lim) =
19.7. The calibration was carried out using the USNO A2.0 catalog.

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