TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 20899 SUBJECT: GRB 170317A: MITSuME Okayama Optical Observation DATE: 17/03/18 00:11:10 GMT FROM: Daisuke Kuroda at OAO/NAOJ D. Kuroda, K. Yanagisawa, Y. Shimizu, H. Toda (OAO, NAOJ), S. Nagayama (NAOJ), M. Yoshida (Hiroshima), K. Ohta (Kyoto) and N. Kawai(Tokyo Tech) report on behalf of the MITSuME and OISTER collaboration: We observed the field of GRB 170317A (LaPorte et al., GCNC 20885) with the optical three color (g', Rc and Ic) CCD camera attached to the MITSuME 50cm telescope of Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. The observation started on 2017-03-17 10:14:19 UT (~28 min after the burst). We detected the previously reported afterglow (LaPorte et al., GCNC 20885; Mazaeva et al., GCNC 20886) in Rc and Ic bands. Three sigma upper limit and photometric results of the OT are listed below. We used GSC2.3 catalog for flux calibration. #T0+[day] MID-UT T-EXP[sec] g' Rc Rc_err Ic Ic_err ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.06138 11:14:22 6120.0 >20.5 19.3 0.2 19.2 0.3" ------------------------------------------------------------------ T0+ : Elapsed time after the burst [day] T-EXP: Total Exposure time [sec]