TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 33628 SUBJECT: GRB 230414B: AbAO optical observations DATE: 23/04/15 11:15:00 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow S. Belkin (IKI), R. Ya. Inasaridze (AbAO), A. Pozanenko (IKI), N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), D. Datashvili (AbAO), V. R. Ayvazian (AbAO), report on behalf of GRB IKI FuN: We observed the field of Swift GRB 230414B (D'Ai et al., GCN 33612) with AS-32 telescope of Abastumani observatory (AbAO) in R-filter starting on Apr. 14 (UT) 16:46:07. We detected the afterglow (Pankov et al., GCN 33615; Lu et al., GCN 33616; Raman et al., GCN 33618; Ghosh et al., GCN 33620; Moskvitin et al., GCN 33622; Malesani et al., GCN 33623; Zhu et al., GCN 33625). Preliminary photometry of the object is following Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. OT Err. UL(3sigma) (mid, days) (s) 2023-04-14 16:46:07 0.06094 R 112*60 19.73 0.05 22.3 The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars.