TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14395 SUBJECT: GRB 130418A: T21 optical observation DATE: 13/04/19 16:59:36 GMT FROM: Veli-Pekka Hentunen at Taurus Hill Obs,A95 Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen and Tuomo Salmi (Taurus Hill Observatory, Varkaus, Finland) report: We have detected GRB 130418A optical afterglow at iTelescope observatory T21 (Mayhill, New Mexico) 0.43-m/6.8 astrograph and FLI ProLine PL6303E CCD. One unfiltered image with 600 sec exposure time was made. The afterglow was detected at following position RA 09:56:08.87 and DEC +13:40:02.7. The following magnitude was obtained from the image using NOMAD1 1036-0179295 (R = 14.910) as the comparison: Tmid(h) +To Filter Exp.time Mag Mag err. 10.96 unfiltered 600 19.018 0.277