TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14461 SUBJECT: GRB 130427B: Faulkes Telescope North afterglow detection DATE: 13/04/27 13:39:57 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), J. Japeli, A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB) on behalf of a large collaboration report: The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing GRB 130427B (Maselli et al. GCN Circ. 14460) at 4.6 minutes from the Swift/BAT trigger time. The automatic LT-TRAP procedure identified a bright uncatalogued object at the following position consistent with that reported by Maselli et al.: RA= 20:59:35.62 Dec= -22:32:46.9 (J2000.0). Its magnitude is estimated to be 15.5 in the R band.