TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19658 SUBJECT: GRB 160705B: LT optical candidate DATE: 16/07/05 22:14:16 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), C.G. Mundell (U. Bath), S. Kobayashi, I.A. Steele (LJMU), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica) on behalf of a large collaboration report: The 2-m Liverpool Telescope began observing Swift GRB 160705B (Cannizzo et al., GCN 19657) on July 05, 21:05:14 UT (3.1 minutes after the burst trigger). Inside the XRT error circle we find an uncatalogued source which is not present in the SDSS at the following position: RA(J2000)= 11:12:26.27 Dec(J2000)= +46:42:01.2 with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec and r~21 mag (AB) @ 36 minutes post GRB.