TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12974 SUBJECT: GRB 120219A, optical observations DATE: 12/02/20 14:36:12 GMT FROM: Shashi Bhushan Pandey at ROTSE Brajesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar Bhatt and S. B. Pandey (ARIES, Nainital, India, on behalf of larger Indian GRB collaboration). We observed the Swift GRB120219A (trigger=515375, Swenson et al. GCN 12964) with the 104cm telescope at ARIES Nainital starting ~ 22 minutes after the burst i.e. at 14:52:46 UT and onwards. Several images were taken in R_c and I_c pass-bands. In the co-added R_c frame (200sec + 2*300sec), we did not detect the optical transient reported by Xin et al. (GCN 12966) down to a limiting magnitude of ~ 20.5 mag. The photometry was performed in comparison to nearby USNO- B1 stars. This massage may be cited. [GCN OPS NOTE(20feb12): Per author's request, the typo n the Subject line was corrected (110219A -- > 120219A).]