TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12900 SUBJECT: GRB 120118B: optical upper limit DATE: 12/01/27 09:43:39 GMT FROM: Alina Volnova at SAI MSU A. Volnova (SAI MSU), E. Litvinenko (UBAI), I. Molotov (KIAM), A. Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf of larger GRB follow up collaboration report: We observed the field of the Swift GRB 120118B (Littlejohns et al., GCNs 12852, 12854) with ORI-40 telescope of Kitab ISON observatory on Jan. 18 between (UT) 17:39:55 and 18:10:51. We obtained several unfiltered images with exposure of 60 seconds. On the stacked image we do not detect a source reported by D'Avanzo et al. (GCN 12870). The photometry is based on nearby reference stars of USNO-B1.0 (R2 magnitudes): Tstart UT, T0+, Filter, Exposure, OT, UL (3 sigma) (mid, d) (s) 17:39:55 0.03127 none 26x60 n/d 19.5