TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16517 SUBJECT: GRB 140629A, Optical observations DATE: 14/07/04 04:08:29 GMT FROM: Shashi Bhushan Pandey at ROTSE S. B. Pandey and Brajesh Kumar (ARIES Nainital India,on behalf of larger Indian GRB collaboration) We observed the Swift GRB 140629A field (Lien et al., GCNC 16477) using 1.04m ST telescope at ARIES Nainital. Observations were started at 17:40:59 UT on 2014-06-29 (approximately 3.4 h after the burst). Several frames with an exposure time of 300 s each in R_c and I_c bands were obtained in good sky conditions. The optical counterpart of GRB 140629A (Lien et al., GCNC 16477; Yurkov et al., GCNC 16478; Bikmaev et al., GCNC 16482; Masi, GCNC 16483; ) is clearly detected in each individual frames. Preliminary photometry is following: ----------------------------------------------- UT Exp_time Filter Mag ------------------------------------------------ 17:40:59 300 s R_c 18.01 +- 0.05 17:56:21 300 s I_c 17.92 +- 0.06 ------------------------------------------------ The photometry was performed in comparison to nearby USNO stars. This massage may be cited