TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5384 SUBJECT: GRB 060801: optical observations at Hanle and Calar Alto DATE: 06/08/01 22:06:47 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada), G. C. Anupama, S. Srividya, Ramya (IIAP-RES Bangalore), A. de Ugarte Postigo (IAA-CSIC), S. S\'anchez, L. Montoya (CAHA Almeria), A. Castillo, J. C. Mu�oz-Mateos (Univ. Complutense Madrid), M. Jel�nek and J. Gorosabel (IAA-CSIC), report: "Following the detection by SWIFT of the short GRB 060801 (Racusin et al. GCNC 5378, Sato et al. GCN 5381), we have taken R-band frames at the 2.0m Hanle telescope in India (+HFOSC) starting on Aug 1.75 UT. Additional BVR-band frames have been taken with the auxiliary port camera at the 3.5m telescope at the German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory in south Spain, starting on Aug 1.935 UT. Near the position of the X-ray afterglow (Racusin et al. GCN 5382), we detect two faint optical sources in the R-band images: source A: 14 12 01.8 +16 59 00.5 source B: 14 12 01.3 +16 58 54.0 with 1" accuracy (for the time being). source A is at the edge of the XRT error box and brighter than source B and it seems to be constant in brightness over the time interval of our observations. Source B is consistent with the XRT error box and there is marginal evidence that source B has declined in brightness, with R = 22.5 +/- 0.5 (preliminary) in the 3.5m CAHA images. Further analysis is in progress." This message can be quoted. [GCN OPS NOTE(08aug06): By author's request, the spelling of the S\'anchez and J. C. Mu�oz-Mateos names were corrected.]