TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 4383 SUBJECT: GRB 051221: Continued fading of optical afterglow DATE: 05/12/22 06:53:39 GMT FROM: Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs E. Berger (Carnegie Observatories), A. M. Soderberg (Caltech), B. P. Schmidt (ANU), and P. A. Price (IfA) report: "We obtained a second epoch of r-band imaging with GMOS on Gemini-north starting on 2005 Dec. 22.195 UT (26.8 hr after the burst and 24 hr after the previous set of observations). A total of 960 sec were obtained in excellent seeing conditions. We find that the optical afterglow candidate (GCN 4375; see also GCNs 4367 & 4369) has faded by about 1.1 mag between the two epochs, confirming our earlier claim."