TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1044 SUBJECT: SGR1900+14, I-band observations DATE: 01/04/19 12:35:15 GMT FROM: Sylvio Klose at TLS Tautenburg S. Klose, B. Stecklum, and U. Laux (Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg) on behalf of a larger collaboration report: We observed the field towards SGR 1900+14 in the I-band using the Tautenburg Schmidt telescope equipped with the Schmidt focus CCD camera (14 frames, 2 min exposure time each). Observations were performed on April 19, 1:12 UT - 2:19 UT, i.e., about 18 hours after the giant gamma-ray flare discovered by BeppoSAX and Ulysses (Guidorzi et al., GCN #1041; Hurley et al., GCN #1043). Of the 14 frames obtained we finally added 8 to construct an image. The other frames are affected by a cloudy sky. At the position of the fading radio source discovered after the strong outburst in 1998 (Frail et al. 1999, Nature 398, 127; see also Fig. 1 in Vrba et al. 2000, ApJ 533, L17) we detect no object down to a limiting magnitude of about I=21. This message can be cited.