TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6883 SUBJECT: GRB 071011: Optical afterglow candidate DATE: 07/10/11 13:58:13 GMT FROM: Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley D. A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, M. Modjaz, and D. Kocevski (UC Berkeley) report: We slewed to the afterglow position with the Keck I telescope (+LRIS) and began taking imaging exposures at 12:50:58 UT, ten minutes after the trigger. By visual comparsion with the DSS we identify a faint candidate optical afterglow at the position: RA = 00:33:47.412 dec = +61:03:34.09 Further observations of the afterglow candidate are ongoing.