TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16675 SUBJECT: GRB 140809A : Virtual Telescope optical observations DATE: 14/08/09 20:26:09 GMT FROM: Gianluca Masi at Bellatrix Astronomical Obs G. Masi, the Virtual Telescope Project - Italy, reports: I observed the field of GRB 140809A (FERMI trigger 429246673) with with the 17" robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope (Ceccano, Italy: http://www.virtualtelescope.eu) at 9 Aug. 2014, 20:15:24 UT. An optical source is visible where described by Shumkov et al. (GCN 16674) in 180-seconds integration images, unfiltered. The position of the source is RA: 11 46 54.89 Decl.:+66 10 00.5 (J2000.0, mean residuals of 0.2") and the magnitude was estimated to be 17.4 assuming R mags for the reference stars from UCAC-4. The message may be cited.