TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12311 SUBJECT: GRB 110825A: optical afterglow candidate DATE: 11/08/27 10:17:19 GMT FROM: Dong Xu at Weizmann Inst D. Xu (WIS), S. Schulze, P. Jakobsson (U. Iceland), and F. Faedi (QUB) report: We observed the field (Zhang & Grupe, GCN 12308) of GRB 110825A (Hurley et al., GCN 12307) with the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with ALFOSC. We obtained 4x300s R-band imaging, starting at 05:07:08 UT on 27th August 2011. Only the first frame is useful due to cloudy weather and relatively bright background towards the morning twilight. An optical object was weakly detected within the XRT error circle (GCN 12308), localised at RA (J2000): 02:59:11.674 Dec(J2000): +15:25:39.84 Error circle radius: ~0.2 arcsec which is about 3.9 arcsec to the extended object reported in our previous GCN 12309. The source has R~23.6 mag calibrated to nearby stars in the USNO B1 catalog. No further observation with the NOT is planned.