TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9375 SUBJECT: GRB 090516: Faulkes Telescope South optical afterglow DATE: 09/05/16 10:08:59 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), I. A. Steele, A. Melandri, D. Bersier, C.J. Mottram, C.G. Mundell, R.J. Smith (Liverpool JMU), A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), P. O'Brien, N. Bannister, N. Tanvir (U. Leicester) on behalf of a large collaboration report: The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South reacted to the Swift burst GRB 090516 (trigger=352190, Rowlinson et al. GCN 9374). Observations started about 16.9 min after the trigger time with filters BRi. Within the XRT error circle we found a fading source at the following position (J2000): RA: 09:13:02.62 Dec: -11:51:15.4 with an initial approximate magnitude of R~19 at 17 minutes post trigger.