Comments on: Naked-eye gamma-ray burst http://www.slackerastronomy.org/wordpress/2008/03/naked-eye-gamma-ray-burst/ If you aren't going to care about something, may as well not care about astronomy Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:06:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gamma Ray Burst in Bootes | Astronomy-Page: Articles http://www.slackerastronomy.org/wordpress/2008/03/naked-eye-gamma-ray-burst/#comment-305323 Gamma Ray Burst in Bootes | Astronomy-Page: Articles Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:56:48 +0000 http://www.slackerastronomy.org/wordpress/index.php/archive/naked-eye-gamma-ray-burst/#comment-305323 [...] Read more about this at NASA and at Slacker Astronomy [...] [...] Read more about this at NASA and at Slacker Astronomy [...]

]]> By: bethkatz17582 http://www.slackerastronomy.org/wordpress/2008/03/naked-eye-gamma-ray-burst/#comment-299401 bethkatz17582 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:06:47 +0000 http://www.slackerastronomy.org/wordpress/index.php/archive/naked-eye-gamma-ray-burst/#comment-299401 Wow! Wouldn't it be cool if someone did see it visually and wondered "Hey! What was that?!" <p> This burst's designation is GRB 080319B with digits of name indicating the year(08), the month(03), and the day(19) it was seen and the B indicating it was the second one of the day. </p><p> Googling the name finds a lot of sites. It's amazing how quickly observers reacted. The notification system works. </p><p> It looks like there are 3 Slacker Astronomy podcasts about GRBs linked from the Slackerpedia <a href="http://www.slackerastronomy.org/slackerpedia/index.php/Gamma-Ray_Burst" rel="nofollow">entry</a> and <a href="http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-36-gamma-ray-bursts/" rel="nofollow">Episode 6</a> of Astronomy Cast focusses on them.</p> Wow! Wouldn’t it be cool if someone did see it visually and wondered “Hey! What was that?!”

This burst’s designation is GRB 080319B with digits of name indicating the year(08), the month(03), and the day(19) it was seen and the B indicating it was the second one of the day.

Googling the name finds a lot of sites. It’s amazing how quickly observers reacted. The notification system works.

It looks like there are 3 Slacker Astronomy podcasts about GRBs linked from the Slackerpedia entry and Episode 6 of Astronomy Cast focusses on them.

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