TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  651
SUBJECT: GRB000424 Optical Observations
DATE:    00/04/27 09:50:23 GMT
FROM:    Mark Wagner at Ohio State U.  <rmw@as.arizona.edu>

R. M. Wagner, P. Eskridge (Ohio State U.), K. Vanlandingham,
J. Noel-Storr, N. Mirabal, & J. P. Halpern (Columbia U.)
report on behalf of the MDM Observatory GRB follow-up team:

"We imaged the error circle of the BeppoSAX WFC localization
of GRB 000424 (Piro, GCN #644) on two consecutive nights in
the R-band using the MDM 1.3m and 2.4m telescopes.  Between
April 26.15 and April 27.15, we see no variable object to a
5-sigma limiting magnitude of approximately R = 22.3.

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