TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19695 SUBJECT: GRB 160712A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations DATE: 16/07/13 13:46:19 GMT FROM: Eleonora Troja at GSFC Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (STScI), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (GSFC/STScI), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report: We observed the field of GRB 160712A (Hagen, et al., GCN 19684) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from 2016/07 13.21 to 2016/07 13.42 UTC (9.05 to 14.30 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 3.56 hours exposure in the r and i bands and 1.45 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands. We detect a source slightly outside of the XRT error circle (Beardmore, et al., GCN 19690), and consistent with the GROND position (Kruehler, et al., GCN 19693). In comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following detections: r 22.77 +/- 0.08 i 21.55 +/- 0.03 Z 20.93 +/- 0.05 Y 20.44 +/- 0.05 J 20.27 +/- 0.06 H 20.15 +/- 0.08 These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB. Further observations to determine whether the source is fading are planned. We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro Mártir.