TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27571 SUBJECT: GRB 200412B: Xinglong TNT optical observations DATE: 20/04/14 04:22:19 GMT FROM: Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM L. P. Xin, X. F. Wang, J. Zheng, Y. L. Qiu, J. Y. Wei, J. Wang, L. H. Li , C. Wu, X. H. Han and J. S. Deng, report: We began to observe GRB 200412B (The Fermi GBM team, GCN 27547; Longo et al. GCN 27557) with Xinglong TNT telescope at 18:09:54 (UT), 13th. Apr. 2020, about 33 hours after the burst. 10 x 300 sec R band images were obtained. The optical afterglow (Lipunov et al., GCNs 27555, 27556; Kumar et al., GCN 27564; Belkin et al., GCN 27566, Stecklum et al., GCN 27567, Moskvitin GCN 27570) is clearly detected in individual images with the brightness of R = 20.0 +/- 0.1. The photometry is based on R2 magnitudes of nearby USNO-B1 stars. With the reports from (Kumar et al., GCN 27564; Belkin et al., GCN 27566, Stecklum et al., GCN 27567, Moskvitin GCN 27570), the brightness is fading with a slope of -1.5 for a single power law (t~t^a) from 10 hours to 39 hours after the burst trigger.