TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 23655 SUBJECT: GRB 190109B: BOOTES-5/JGT optical observations DATE: 19/01/09 15:44:19 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia X.-Y.Li, Y.-D. Hu, I. Carrasco, E. Fernandez-Garcia and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC), D. Hiriart and W. H. Lee (UNAM), S. Jeong and I. H. Park (SKKU) and M. D. Caballero-Garcia (ASU-CAS, CZ) on behalf of a larger collaboration, report: The 60cm BOOTES-5/JGT robotic telescope at Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in San Pedro Martir (Mexico) followed-up GRB 190109B (Sbarufatti et al., GCNC 23648) starting at 13:30 UT (~1.6 hr after trigger). Within the enhanced Swift/XRT position (Beardmore et al., GCNC 23652), no optical afterglow is found down to 20.4 mag in the r-band on the co-added image, in agreement with the UVOT upper limit (Sbarufatti et al., GCNC 23648). We thank the staff at Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in San Pedro Martir for its excellent support.