TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 4702 SUBJECT: GRB 060206: IR Detection of the Afterglow DATE: 06/02/07 06:41:10 GMT FROM: Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley K. Alatalo, D. Perley and J. S. Bloom (UCB) report: Starting at 2006-02-06 07:41:37 UT (2.91 hrs after the trigger) we began observing the field of GRB060206 (GCN 4682) with PAIRITEL. The transient reported by Fynbo et al. (GCN 4683, GCN 4689) is well detected in each of the 1800s mosaics simultaneously in JHKs bands, and is seen to fade between mosaics. The preliminary magnitude of the transient in the first epoch of imaging in each band, calibrated to the 2MASS catalog, is: J: 15.96 +- 0.03 H: 15.25 +- 0.03 Ks: 14.54 +- 0.04 This message may be cited.