TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 24290 SUBJECT: GRB 190427A: Lick/Nickel telescope optical observations DATE: 19/04/27 16:07:18 GMT FROM: Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley Keto Zhang, Shaunak Modak, WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team: We observed the field of GRB 190427A (Tohuvavohu et al., GCN 24261) with the 1-m Nickel telescope located at Lick observatory, California. Observations started about 4.31 hours after the burst. A total of 5 image in R band were taken with each exposure time of 600s. No viable counterparts were identified in our images. The limiting magnitude of our 5 combined image is R~22.0 mag calibrated to the Pan-STARRS1 catalog.