TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 13511 SUBJECT: GRB 120724A: FTN optical afterglow candidate DATE: 12/07/24 07:58:29 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), J. Japelj (U. Ljubljana) on behalf of a large collaboration report: The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing GRB 120724A (D'Avanzo et al. GCN Circ. 13510) on July 24 2012, 06:42:31 UT corresponding to 209 seconds post burst trigger with BVRi' filters. Within the XRT error circle we found the following uncatalogued fading source, R.A. = 16:20:43.21 Dec = +03:30:29.3 (J2000) with an uncertainty of about 1" with a magnitude of 20.5 +/- 0.3 in the i band at 13.8 minutes, calibrated against nearby USNOB-1 stars. The source is also visible in stacked R-band frames.