TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9258 SUBJECT: GRB090426: Observation for Optical counterpart from MIRO DATE: 09/04/26 16:36:42 GMT FROM: Kiran S Baliyan at Physical Research Lab, Ahmedabad,India K.S. Baliyan, Sunil Chandra and J.K. Jain (MIRO-PRL, Ahmedabad, India) report: We observed the field around the position of the optical counterpart of GRB 090426 (Cummings et al GCN 9254, Xin et GCN 9255) usinmg 1.2m telescope and 1296x1152 pixels CCD. The observations were made in white band (4x60s), R band (4x120s) starting at UT 14:41:05 on April 26, 2009. After a careful comparison with the DSS field, we did not notice any new source near (couple of arcsecs) the said position of the optical afterglow of GRB 090426 as reported in GCNs 9254 & 9255, down to the limit of 19.3 in R. This message may be cited.