TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7238 SUBJECT: GRB 080129: KAIT optical limits DATE: 08/01/30 00:16:38 GMT FROM: Weidong Li at UC Berkeley KAIT/LOSS W. Li and A. V. Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley, on behalf of the KAIT GRB team, report: We imaged the field of GRB 080129 detected by Swift (trigger 301981; Immler et al. GCN 7226) with the robotic 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory. The automatic sequence was not executed due to poor weather, but a manual sequence was observed remotely. In total, 14 x 20 s unfiltered observations were observed. Our first 20 s image started at 6:11:31 UT, 286 s after the GRB trigger. We did not detect the optical/NIR afterglow candidate reported by Bloom (GCN 7229) and Kruehler et al. (GCN 7231) to a limiting magnitude of 17.9 (calibrated to USNO B1). A 200 s co-added image with the middle exposure time at 643 s after the GRB trigger did not detect the afterglow candidate to a limiting magnitude of 20.0. This message may be cited.