TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7789
SUBJECT: GRB 080603 OA candidate
DATE:    08/06/03 12:02:13 GMT
FROM:    Ryan Chornock at UC Berkeley  <chornock@astro.berkeley.edu>

R. Chornock, D. Perley, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report that:

The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory slewed to the 
position of GRB 080603 and detected a new source not present in the DSS at 
coordinates:
(J2000)  18:37:38.06  +62:44:39.3

The new source was first detected in a 60s image starting at 11:28:55 UT and is 
near magnitude 18.7 in unfiltered and I band images.