TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14656 SUBJECT: GRB 130515A: Gemini/GMOS Observations DATE: 13/05/15 06:32:58 GMT FROM: S. Bradley Cenko at Caltech S. B. Cenko (UC Berkeley), A Cucchiara (UCSC), D. Xu (DARK/NBI), and A. J. Levan (U. Warwick) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We obtained a single 240 s r'-band image of the field of GRB 130515A (Malesani et al., GCN 14650) with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph mounted on the 8 m Gemini South telescope. The observation commenced at 01:59 UT (~ 38 min after the Swift trigger) under poor seeing conditions. We identify the same 3 sources in the vicinity of the XRT error circle as Xu et al. (GCN 14653). For reference, we measure J2000.0 positions for these sources with respect to nearby point sources from the 2MASS catalog to be: S1: 18:53:45.79, -54:16:47.1 S2: 18:53:45.23, -54: 16:44.4 S3: 18:53:46.13, -54:16:41.2 We have compared photometry from our Gemini images directly with that obtained by the VLT approximately 50 minutes later. For these three point sources, we measure the following change in magnitude (VLT - Gemini): S1: -0.37 +/- 0.18 mag S2: -0.03 +/- 0.10 mag S3: -0.03 +/- 0.10 mag There is this marginal evidence that S1 has brightened between the two epochs. However, we cannot rule out that the discrepancy results from a color difference between the two images (r' vs R). Further observations are planned. [GCN OPS NOTE(15may13): Per author's request, the 14653 reference was corrected to "Xu et al".]