... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... On April 8, 2005, an optical afterglow of the GRB 050408 was discovered with the SAO's telescopes (the 1-meter telescope Zeiss and 6-meter telescope BTA) within the framework of a joint BTA request (SAO RAS + IAA CSIC, Granada, Spain) on optical identification of gamma-ray bursts. We first detected a variable object only by our own data in the localization error-box reported by the space observatory HETE and then it was confirmed by our observations in SAO. ...

... 2000: . According to the BTA observations, the redshift Z=0.7063+-0.0017 was measured for a distant galaxy possessing the 24 magnitude, in which there occurred an explosion of a massive star, followed by a gamma-ray burst catalogued as GRB991208. ... In collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute (USA), the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain). ... According to the Palomar Sky Survey, about 600 new nearby dwarf galaxies were discovered. ... Archive . ...