TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26529 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S191216ap: MASTER optical observation DATE: 19/12/21 16:50:55 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa,A.Kuznetsov,F.Balakin, K.Zhirkov, V.Vladimirov, D. Vlasenko, I.Gorbunov, D.Zimnukhov, V.Senik, T.Pogrosheva, A.Chasovnikov, D.Kuvshinov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department), O.A. Gres, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova (Irkutsk State University, API), R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile(Observatorio Astronomico FelixAguilar OAFA), H.Levato(Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio ICATE), R. Rebolo, M. Serra(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), D. Buckley(South African Astronomical Observatory), V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko(Blagoveschensk Educational State University) A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory), MASTER covered 812 square degrees of S191216ap ( MassGap (>99%); 324+/-78Mpc LVC GCN 26454, Lipunov et al. GCN 26457, GCN 26474; Barthelmy collection https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/S191216ap.gcn3) that is equal to 92% of full error-box https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/ligo_1.php?id=11073 We report MASTER observation of the galaxies cross-matched with LVC and HAWC localization (Singer et al. GCN 26479) without OT detection with the following limits: Galaxy_Coordinates MASTER_first_image_UT mlim (unfiltered) MASTER_observatory 323.482422 +5.279632 2019-12-17 09:53:01 17.0 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 10:54:13 18.6 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-17 15:53:25 18.6 MASTER-Kislovodsk 323.056030 +4.832057 2019-12-17 09:41:42 17.3 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 12:09:47 18.6 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Tavrida 322.921936 +5.503483 2019-12-17 09:53:01 17.0 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 10:54:13 18.3 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Tavrida 2019-12-18 16:40:44 18.5 MASTER-Kislovodsk 322.838806 +5.255421 2019-12-17 09:53:01 17.0 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 12:09:47 18.6 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-17 15:53:25 18.6 MASTER-Kislovodsk 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Kislovodsk 322.821228 +5.553754 2019-12-17 09:53:01 17.0 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 10:54:13 18.3 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Tavrida 322.749084 +5.108610 2019-12-17 09:53:01 17.0 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 12:09:47 18.6 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-17 15:32:09 19.6 MASTER-Tavrida 2019-12-18 15:54:04 20.0 MASTER-Tavrida 323.173767 +4.467985 2019-12-17 09:41:42 17.3 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 15:53:25 18.6 MASTER-Kislovodsk 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Tavrida 322.906006 +5.850705 2019-12-17 09:53:01 17.0 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 10:54:13 18.3 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-17 16:30:37 18.5 MASTER-Kislovodsk 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Tavrida 323.034882 +4.482058 2019-12-17 09:41:42 17.3 MASTER-Amur 2019-12-17 15:53:25 18.6 MASTER-Tunka 2019-12-20 15:39:40 18.6 MASTER-Tavrida The analysys will be continued. The message may be cited.