TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 4127 SUBJECT: GRB 051021: SOAR NIR Observations DATE: 05/10/22 03:54:03 GMT FROM: Josh Haislip at U.North Carolina J. Haislip, M. Nysewander, E. Cypriano, D. Reichart, M. Bayliss report on behalf of the UNC Team of the FUN GRB Collaboration: The SOAR-4.1m Telescope at CTIO began imaging the afterglow of the HETE GRB 051021 (Yoshida et al., GCN 4116; Fox et al., GCN 4120) at 01:38:51 UT, 12.3 hours after the burst in YJHKs. We detect the afterglow at a magnitude of J = 17.16 +- 0.06 based on three 2MASS stars at a mean time of 01:47:19.2 UT, 12.4 hours after the GRB.