TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15003 SUBJECT: GRB 130702A: Maidanak optical observations DATE: 13/07/11 16:11:27 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow A. Pozanenko (IKI), A. Volnova (IKI), O. Burhonov (UBAI), I. Molotov (KIAM) report on behalf of larger GRB follow-up collaboration: We continue observations of the afterglow (Singer et al., GCN 14967) of GRB 130702A (Cheung et al., GCN 14971; Collazzi et al., GCN 14972) with AZT-22 telescope of Maidanak observatory. A preliminary photometry of combined images is based on two SDSS stars suggested by Schulze et al. (GCN 14978) and used in our previous observations (Pozanenko et al, GCNs 14988, 14996) T_start T0+ Filter, Exposure, OT (UT) (mid, d) (s) 2013-07-09T16:50:52 7.6771 R 7x600 19.73+/-0.04 2013-07-10T17:18:05 8.6931 R 6x600 19.64+/-0.03 The light curve can be found at http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB130702A/GRB130702A_MAO_R_lc.png It is clearly visible in the lc a rising SN (Schulze et al., GCN 14994; Cenko et al., GCN 1998; D'Elia et al., GCN 15000).