TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26282 SUBJECT: GRB 191123A: Swift/UVOT detection DATE: 19/11/23 16:12:05 GMT FROM: Paul Kuin at MSSL N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and A. Tohuvavohu (U Toronto) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 191123A 78 s after the BAT trigger (Tohuvavohu et al., GCN Circ. 26279). A candidate optical afterglow was detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 78 228 147 18.26+-0.07 u_FC 290 540 246 >19.89 white 869 1019 147 19.28+-0.13 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.04 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).