TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12932 SUBJECT: GRB 120212A: Faulkes Telescope South afterglow candidate DATE: 12/02/12 10:14:11 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), C.G. Mundell, F. Virgili, I.A. Steele (LJMU), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South automatically began observing GRB 120212A (Sonbas et al. GCN Circ. 12930) on February 2012, 09:25:18 UT corresponding to 14 minutes post burst with BVRi' filters. We found the following uncatalogued source, R.A. = 02:52:24.06 Dec = -18:01:14.2 (J2000) with an uncertainty of about 1" with a magnitude of R=16.3 at 22 minutes, calibrated against USNOB-1 stars. Presently, we cannot determine whether the source is fading.