TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6046 SUBJECT: GRB 070126: VLT observations DATE: 07/01/28 12:00:08 GMT FROM: Daniele Malesani at Niels Bohr Inst,Dark Cosmology Center D. Malesani (Dark/NBI), P.M. Vreeswijk (ESO), P. Jakobsson (Herfordshire), J.P.U. Fynbo (Dark/NBI), report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We observed the field of the faint GRB 070126 (Vetere et al., GCN 6027) with the ESO VLT + FORS2 on 2006 Jan 26.17 UT (1.52 hr after the GRB). Short exposures (~1 min) were acquired in BVRIz. Inside the XRT error circle (Vetere \& Racusin, GCN 6045) we detect a single, extended source, which is present in the USNO-B1 catalog and in the DSS images, at the coordinates (0.5" error): RA(J2000) = 02:14:10.03 Dec(J2000) = -73:32:05.7 Given the lack of evidence for variability of the X-ray source, the possible association of this galaxy with the GRB or the X-ray source is at present unclear. Our images cover ~80% of the refined BAT error circle (Fenimore et al., GCN 6040). No new sources brighter than the DSS limits (R~20.5) are seen across the whole observed region. We acknowledge excellent support from the ESO staff at Paranal, in particular Hugues Sana, Thomas Rivinius, Leonardo Vanzi and Dominique Naef.