TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7301 SUBJECT: GRB 080212: optical observations DATE: 08/02/13 06:49:06 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia A. Sánchez Caso (Gualba Obs., Barcelona), M. Jelínek, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel (IAA-CSIC, Granada) and D. Pérez-Ramírez (U. Leicester), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report: "Following the detection of GRB 080212 by Swift/BAT (Ziaeepour et al., GCN Circ. 7296), we have obtained VRI-band images with the 0.4m Gualba Obs. telescope under non-optimal conditions, starting on Feb 13.263 UT (i.e. 13.0 hr after the trigger). At the Swift/XRT position given by Page et al. (GCN Circ. 7299) we only see the DSS2 galaxy pointed out by Berger (GCN Circ. 7294). The limiting magnitude of our images is R = 18. Much deeper optical/nIR observations are encouraged." This message can be quoted.