TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9148 SUBJECT: GRB 090418 OA candidate DATE: 09/04/18 11:16:22 GMT FROM: Ryan Chornock at UC Berkeley R. Chornock, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team: The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory automatically slewed to the position of GRB 090418 and discovered a new new point source not present in the DSS at coordinates (J2000): 17:57:15.17 +33:24:21.1 at an unfiltered magnitude of approximately 15.8 at UT=11:10:57. Further observations are in progress.