TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 23244 SUBJECT: GRB 180914B : TSHAO optical observations DATE: 18/09/17 10:26:49 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow E. Mazaeva (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), I. Reva (FAPHI), A. Kusakin (FAPHI), A. Volnova (IKI), M. Krugov (FAPHI) report on behalf of larger GRB follow-up collaboration: We observed the field of GRB 180914B (Ursi, et al., GCN 23226; Bissaldi et al., GCN 23232; Frederiks et al., GCN 23240) with Zeiss-1000 1-m telescope of Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory starting on September 16 (UT) 19:44:34, obtaining a total of 46.5 minutes exposure in the Rc-band. Within XRT position (D'Ai et al., GCN 23236) we detect the object reported by Zheng & Filippenko (GCN 23237), Troja et al. (GCN 23238), (Paul & Kuin, GCN 23241). Preliminary photometry of the objext is following. Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. OT Err. UL (mid, days) (s) 2018-09-16 19:44:34 2.07692 R 31*90 19.89 0.05 21.9 The photometry is based on several nearby SDSS-DR9 stars. SDSS-DR9_id R(Lupton) J220926.80+250130.1 15.705 J220922.87+250206.0 16.156 J220929.88+250257.7 15.812 J220928.05+250309.0 17.230 J220928.90+250327.6 15.524 J220924.12+250415.7 15.485 J220920.37+250610.6 15.050 J220902.04+250312.5 15.321 -- Лена Мазаева