TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 17209 SUBJECT: GRB 141221A: LCOGT-McDonald optical afterglow observations DATE: 14/12/21 15:07:45 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi, S. Dichiara (U. Ferrara), D. Kopac, A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana) on behalf of a larger collaboration report: The 1-m LCOGT McDonald telescope began observing Swift GRB 141221A (Sonbas et al. GCN 17206) on Dec 21 at 10:26:35 UT, corresponding to 2.3 hours after the burst trigger, with SDSS r' and i' filters. We detect the optical afterglow (Sonbas et al. GCN 17206; Covino GCN 17208) with i'=20.1 +- 0.3 mag at a mid time of 2.61 hours post burst (total exposure of 600 s).