TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6979 SUBJECT: GRB 071020: SARA observations DATE: 07/10/22 20:23:05 GMT FROM: Adria C. Updike at Clemson U Adria C. Updike, Dieter H. Hartmann (Clemson University) and Todd Hillwig (Valparaiso University) report on behalf of the Clemson GRB Follow-Up Team: We observed the field of GRB 071020 (GCN 6949, Holland et al.) beginning 1 hour after the trigger with the SARA 0.9m telescope on Kitt Peak. In 48 minutes of stacked exposures, we detect the afterglow (GCN 6948, Schaefer et al.) in the R band at 19.7 +/- 0.2, calibrated relative to 10 field stars in the USNO B1.0 catalog. Observations ended at 2 hours and 11 minutes after the burst. This message may be cited. Information on the SARA observatory may be found at http://astro.fit.edu/sara/sara.html .