TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12830 SUBJECT: GRB 120106A: optical upper limit DATE: 12/01/12 14:38:43 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow A. Volnova (SAI MSU), E. Litvinenko (UBAI), A. Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf of larger GRB follow up collaboration report: We observed the field of the Swift GRB 120106A (Beardmore et al., GCN 12810) with ORI-40 telescope of Kitab ISON observatory on Jan. 6 starting on (UT) 18:49:24. We obtained several unfiltered images between (UT) 18:49:24 - 19:20:20. On the stacked image we do not detect any source within the enhanced XRT error box (Evans et al., GCN 12813). The photometry is based on nearby reference stars of USNO-B1.0 (R2 magnitudes): Tstart UT, T0+, Filter, Exposure, OT, UL (3 sigma) (mid, d) (s) 18:49:24 0.2003 none 30*60 n/d 18.5