TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8528 SUBJECT: GRB 081118: optical afterglow candidate DATE: 08/11/19 01:49:12 GMT FROM: Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (INAF-OAR), S. Covino (INAF-OAB), S. Piranomonte (INAF-OAR), R. Salvaterra (INAF-OAB), C. C. Thoene (INAF-OAB), G. Chincarini (Un. Bicocca) report on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration: We observed the field of GRB 081118 (Hoversten et al. GCN 8524) with the ESO-VLT equipped with the FORS2 camera on Nov 19.0431 UT (about 10 hours after the burst). We detect an object in our R-band images at the edge of the refined XRT error box (Evans et al. GCN 8525). The object is around R ~ 22.5. At present it is not possible to say if it is variable or not. Object coordinates are (J2000): R.A. = 05:30:22.18 Dec = -43:18:05.3 +/- 0.5". Further analysis is ongoing. We acknowledge support from the ESO staff, in particular Antonio de Ugarte Postigo. [GCN OPS NOTE(19nov08): Per author's request, "C. Thone" was changed to "C. C. Thoene".]