TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21811 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo G299232: Maidanak observations of optical transient SwiftJ014008.5+343403.6 DATE: 17/09/04 16:37:50 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI,Moscow A. Pozanenko (IKI), A. Volnova (IKI), E. Mazaeva (IKI), B. Hafizov (UBAI), O. Burhonov (UBAI) report on behalf of IKI-GW follow-up collaboration: We observed the field of the Optical Transient discovered by Swift/UVOT (Emery et al., GCN 21733) with AZT-22 telescope of Maidanak observatory starting on 2017-08-28 (UT) 21:25:37. We obtained several images in R-filter. The optical transient (Emery et al., GCN 21733) is not detected in a combined image. Preliminary photometry of the field is following. Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. OT Err. UL (Since LVC,mid, days) (s) (3 sigma) 2017-08-28 21:25:37 3.34167 R 3600 n/d n/d 23.0 Photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars (R2 magnitudes).