TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 23627 SUBJECT: GRB 190106A: BOOTES-4/MET optical observations DATE: 19/01/06 22:39:38 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia Y.-D. Hu, X.-Y.Li, E. Fernandez-Garcia, A. Ayala, A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Castellon, I. Carrasco (Univ. de Malaga), S. Guziy (Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory) and D. Xiong, Y. Fan, X. Zhao, J. Bai, C. Wang, Y. Xin (Yunnan Nacional Astronomical Observatory) on behalf of a larger collaboration, report: Following the detection of GRB 190106A by Swift (Sonbas et al. GCNC 23615), the 0.6m BOOTES-4/MET robotic telescope at Lijiang Astronomical Observatory (China) triggered alert at 15:12:56 UT (~1.6 hr after trigger). The reported optical afterglow (Yurkov et al. GCNC 23614, Lipunov et al. GCNC 23616, Itoh et al. GCNC 23617, Mao et al. GCNC 23618, Reva et al. GCNC 23620 and Xin et al. 23622) is still clearly detected within the refined XRT position (Goad et al. GCNC 23619). A preliminary photometry yields a magnitude of 19.4 +/- 0.1 (g-band). Observations are ongoing.