TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16659 SUBJECT: GRB 140801A : Virtual Telescope optical observations DATE: 14/08/02 09:44:48 GMT FROM: Gianluca Masi at Bellatrix Astronomical Obs G. Masi, the Virtual Telescope Project - Italy, reports: I observed the field of GRB 140801A (Fermi trigger 428612396) with with the 17" robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope (Ceccano, Italy) at 2 Aug. 2014, 00:10:39 UT, 5.15 hours seconds after the burst. An optical source is visible where described by Gorbovskoy et al. (GCN 16653) and D. Xu et al (GCN 16656) in a image coming from the sum of three, 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered. The position of the source is RA: 02 56 16.46 +30 56 17.9 (J2000.0, mean residuals of 0.2") and the magnitude was estimated to be 19.6, assuming R mags for the reference stars from UCAC-4. The message may be cited.