TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16747 SUBJECT: GRB 140824A: optical upper limit in CrAO DATE: 14/08/26 18:11:29 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow V. Rumyantsev (CrAO), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of larger GRB follow-up collaboration: We observed the field of the Swift GRB 140824A (Beardmore et al., GCN 16732) with ZTSh telescope of CrAO observatory starting on Aug. 24 (UT) 17:48:55 (9.1 hours after burst trigger). We took several images in R-filter of 120 s exposure. Within enhanced XRT position (Evans et al., GCN 16735) we do not detect any source. Photometry of a combined image is following Date UT start, t-t0 Filter Exp. OT UL (3 sigma) (mid, days) (s) 2014-08-24 17:48:55 0.4105 R 39x120 n/d 23.5 The photometry is based on USNO-B1.0 star 1233-0239576 (13:46:31.55 +33:18:14.7) assuming R=19.66