TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12116 SUBJECT: GRB 110708A: Lick observations DATE: 11/07/09 05:54:15 GMT FROM: Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley D. A. Perley, K. Clubb, M. Ganeshalingam, M. Ellison, D. Cohen, and J. S. Bloom (UC Berkeley) report: We observed the position of INTEGRAL GRB 110708A (Gotz et al., GCN 12112) with the 1-meter Nickel telescope at Lick Observatory starting at 07:30:18 UT, 2.78 hours after the trigger. We acquired four exposures of 300 seconds each (20 minutes total integration) in the I-band filter. The XRT position given by D'Elia et al. (GCN 12115) lies near the center of an asterism of five bright, nearby point-sources (one of which is inside the XRT error circle), all of which are also visible in USNO imaging and are likely Galactic stars. There is a possible, marginal detection of a fainter source within the XRT error circle at: RA=22:40:27.33, dec=+53:57:42.8 (J2000) The approximate magnitude of this object, if real, is I~20.5 (calibrated relative to USNO I-band). It is fainter than the DSS limit and also too faint to clearly detect in individual exposures, so we cannot conclusively associate it with GRB 110708A at this time. We identify no other objects within the XRT error circle to a limiting magnitude of I > 20.3, although the limit is complicated due to crowding from the nearby stars.