TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 22716 SUBJECT: GRB 180512A: LT prompt observations DATE: 18/05/13 08:31:12 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi, R. Martone (U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi (LJMU), C.G. Mundell (U. Bath), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica), I.A. Steele (LJMU) on behalf of a large collaboration report: The 2-m Liverpool Telescope automatically began observing Swift GRB 180512A (Deich et al. GCN 22710) on May 12, 22:07:15 UT (5.5 minutes since the GRB) with the RINGO3 polarimeter and the IO:O camera in the SDSS-R filter. Within the enhanced XRT error circle (Evans et al. GCN 22715) we do not detect any optical counterpart down to the following magnitude: Mid time since GRB     Exp        Filter         Magnitude (hrs)                  (s) ----------------------------------------------------------- 0.64                  6x10       SDSS-R          > 20.8 ----------------------------------------------------------- as calibrated against nearby SDSS objects.