TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  37903
SUBJECT: GRB 241026A: KAIT optical observations
DATE:    24/10/27 06:33:47 GMT
FROM:    Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>

WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on

behalf of the KAIT GRB team:


The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located

at Lick Observatory, responded to GRB 241026A detected by Swift

(Melandri et al., GCN 37896) starting about 3.33 hours after

the bust under cloudy condition. Observations were performed

in the clear (roughly R) filter, and a total of 30x60s images

were obtained. We marginally detected the optical afterglow

(Moskvitin et al., GCN 37899; Watson et al., GCN 37900) in our

coadd image. We measured its brightness of 19.4 +/- 0.3 mag at

a mid time of 3.66 hours after the burst.