TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15282 SUBJECT: GRB 131002A: Faulkes Telescope North optical afterglow DATE: 13/10/02 07:17:47 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara) on behalf of a large collaboration reports: The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing GRB 131002A on October 02 2013 at 06:57:26 UT (~3.1 min after the burst trigger). Within the XRT error circle we find a fading uncatalogued object at coordinates RA(2000.0)= 16:52:52.86 Dec(2000.0)= +82:03:16.4 (error 0.5") with R=15.2 +- 0.2 mag, calibrated against nearby USNOB-1 stars.