TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14272 SUBJECT: GRB 130305A: Gemini-North upper limit DATE: 13/03/08 06:03:09 GMT FROM: Antonino Cucchiara at UCSC/UCO Lick A. Cucchiara (UCSC/UCO Lick Observatory), S. B. Cenko (UC Berkeley), D. Perley (Caltech) report on behalf of a large collaboration: "On March 7.21 UT we observed the field of GRB 130305A (Cummings & Palmer, GCN 14257; Yu & Xiong, GCN 14261; Guiriec et al., GCN 14260) with the Gemini-North telescope equipped with the GMOS camera. We obtained 14x180s exposures, for a total integration time of 42 minutes (T_mid = T0+1.70 days). No clear object is detected within the XRT error circle down to r' > 26.1 mag. Nevertheless we note the presence of several galaxies just outside the current XRT error circle (2.7 arcsec radius), in particular of a relatively bright object in the S-W direction, which seems to show a distorted morphology (https://www.dropbox.com/s/pyir6g8mqd658xn/GRB130305A.jpeg). The galaxy coordinates are RA: 07:46:58.9 (J2000) Dec: +52:01:55.72 (J2000) We thank the Gemini staff for performing this observations, in particular J. Rhee."