TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5976 SUBJECT: GRB 061222A: Xinglong Optical Limit DATE: 06/12/23 19:36:16 GMT FROM: W.K. Zheng at NAOC M.Zhai, L.P. Xin, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei, J.Y. Hu, J.S. Deng and W.K. Zheng on behalf of EAFON report: We have imaged the field of GRB 061222A with the 2.16m telescope at Xinglong Observatory. A 30 minutes R band image is obtained 9.97 hours after the burst.The afterglow candidate (S.B. Cenko et al., GCN5975) was not detected and no new source was seen with 3-simga limit magnitude R~22.4 derived from USNO B1.0 This message may be cited.