TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 13030 SUBJECT: GRB 120308A: RTT150 optical observations DATE: 12/03/10 08:39:23 GMT FROM: Rodion Burenin at IKI, Moscow I. Bikmaev, R.Zhuchkov , N. Sakhibullin (Kazan Federal University), R. Burenin, M. Pavlinsky, R. Sunyaev (IKI), I. Khamitov, Z. Eker (TUG), U. Kiziloglu (METU), E. Gogus (Sabanci Uni.) report: The field of GRB 120308A (Baumgartner et al., GCN 13017) was observed with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope (RTT150, Bakirlitepe, TUBITAK National Observatory, Turkey) on March 08, 2012, UT(mean)= 22:35, approximately 16 hours after the burst. A serie of exposures by 300 sec each in Rc filter was obtained at moderate weather conditions. We marginaly detected optical source at the position of OT (Virgili et al., GCN 13018) and estimated its Rc ~ 22.5 mag in our combined image.