TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7070 SUBJECT: GRB071112C: NOT observations DATE: 07/11/12 23:55:27 GMT FROM: Johan U. Fynbo at U.Copenhagen J. Sollerman (DARK and Stockholm), G. Leloudas (DARK), Pall Jakobsson (Hertfordshire), J. P. U. Fynbo, D. Malesani, P. Vreeswijk (DARK) report on behalf of a larger collaboration : We obtained R-band imaging and a spectrum of the optical afterglow of GRB 071112C (Perri et al. GCN #7059) with the Nordic Optical Telescope on November UT 12.9. Unfortunately our observations were hampered by clouds so the signal-to-noise ratio of the spectrum is low. The optical afterglow is clearly detected in our images. The continuum of the optical afterglow is detected to 3800 AA so the redshift of GRB071112C is most likely less than about 2.3. No significant lines are detected.