TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 2316 SUBJECT: XRF 030723, optical observations DATE: 03/07/24 17:17:34 GMT FROM: Howard E Bond at STScI Howard E. Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute) reports: The SXC error circle of XRF 030723 (HETE Burst H2777) was imaged with the SMARTS Consortium 1.3m reflector at Cerro Tololo on 2003 July 24.080, 24.173, and 24.281. The 6'x6' CCD field was centered at RA= 21h 49m 27.4s, Dec= -27d 42' 01" (J2000), and R-band exposures of 3x300 sec were taken at each epoch. Visual inspection of the images shows no new sources compared to the second-epoch Digitized Sky Survey red images, nor any obviously variable fainter objects.