TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16201 SUBJECT: GRB 140430A: Further VATT Optical Observations DATE: 14/05/02 07:41:32 GMT FROM: Peter Garnavich at U of Notre Dame M. Kennedy (University College Cork), P. Garnavich (Notre Dame) We again observed the field around GRB 140430A with the 1.8m Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT; GCN 16196). Observations with the VATT4K CCD were centered around 3:22 UT on 2014 May 2 (1848 minutes after the burst). We obtained 5x300s exposures with the R-band filter in good seeing. We detect the previously reported afterglow in the combined images. With the same USNO comparison star used by Malesani et al (GCN 16193) and Kennedy et al. (GCN 16196) we estimate the afterglow brightness as R=21.7 +/- 0.1 at 30.81 hours after the burst. This is fainter than the extrapolation of the power-law decay rate estimated for the first seven hours and we conclude that optical power-law decay index has steepened to 1.0 over the past day.