TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 533 SUBJECT: GRB000126 Optical Observations DATE: 00/02/05 12:39:13 GMT FROM: Kjetil Kjernsmo at U. of Oslo K. Kjernsmo, A. Jaunsen and OE. Saanum (U. of Oslo) B. L. Jensen, J. Hjorth, H. Pedersen (U. of Copenhagen) J. Gorosabel (DSRI, Copenhagen) report: "We have obtained a 300s R-band image of the central third of the IPN/BATSE errorbox of GRB 000126 (Hurley et al. GCN #525, Kippen GCN #526) on 2000 Jan 28.14 UT with the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope. From comparison with DSS-I, we found no obvious optical GRB counterparts in this part of the errorbox down to the limit of DSS (R~19.5). The NOT image has a seeing of 1.9" and a limiting magnitude of 22.2 (4 sigma)."