TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 20508 SUBJECT: GRB 170121B: LCO FTN observations DATE: 17/01/23 08:41:54 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi, I.A. Steele (LJMU), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica), C.G. Mundell (U. Bath) on behalf of a large collaboration report: We observed Fermi GRB 170121B (Hamburg et al. GCN 20505) on January 23, 07:21 UT (1.7 days since the GRB) with the 2-m LCO Faulkes Telescope North in Hawaii with SDSS r and i filters. We do not detect the MASTER optical counterpart (Lipunov et al. GCN 20502) down to the following limits: Mid Time Exposure Filter Magnitude (AB) (days) (s) ------------------------------------------------------- 1.69 2x120 SDSS-R > 21.0 1.69 2x120 SDSS-I > 19.5 ------------------------------------------------------- as calibrated against nearby USNO-URAT1 sources.