TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12515 SUBJECT: GRB 111029A: SAO RAS optical limits DATE: 11/10/31 18:53:30 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS A. S. Moskvitin and V. V. Sokolov report on behalf of larger collaboration: The field of GRB 111029A (Troja et al., GCN#12498) was observed with the Zeiss-1000 telescope of SAO RAS (Russia) on October 29/30 night. 12 x 300 sec. in Rc and 12 x 300 sec. in Ic images were obtained under the good conditions and the seeing 2" (FWHM of stellar-like objects at the co-added images). The observation started at 21:31:21 October 29 (since 11.8 hours after the trigger), finished at 00:33:51 October, 30 UT. No optical counterpart was detected within the XRT 1".9 error circle (according to http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions/ ) up to the 3 sigma limiting magnitudes R_lim = 24.6 and I_lim = 23.3. The calibration was done against R2 and I magnitudes of nearby USNO B-1.0 stars. The Rc and Ic images can be found at ftp://ftp.sao.ru/pub/grb/GRB111029A/GRB111029A.jpg The closest object is located 4".65 South-West from the center of XRT error circle. The brightness of this object is R = 22.99 +/- 0.32, I = 21.79 +/- 0.28 (the high error is due to calibration) and the coordinates are R.A.(J2000) = 02:59:07.71, Dec.(J2000) = +57:06:35.5, with the uncertainty 0".21. Due to cosmological nature of GRBs this object probably can not be related to the GRB 111029A.