TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 44803 SUBJECT: GRB 260601B / EP260601a: Mondy optical upper limit DATE: 26/06/03 13:30:59 GMT FROM: Alina Volnova at IKI RAS <alinusss@gmail.com> A. Volnova (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), A. Pozanenko (IKI), N. Pankov (IKI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN: We observed the field of the fast X-ray transient GRB 260601B / EP260601a (Yang et al., GCN 44766; Yu et al., GCN 44767; Wang et al., GCN 44768, 44785; Waratkar et al., GCN 44771; Sugita et al., GCN 44773; Cheung GCN 44801) with the AZT-33IK telescope of the Mondy observatory starting on 2026-06-02 UT 15:45:12 and taking several 120-second exposures in the R-band. In the sdtacked frame we do not detect the optical counterpart reported previously (Liu et al., GCN 44764; Guelfand et al., GCN 44765; Mo et al., GCN 44777; Liu et al., GCN 44789 ). Preliminary photometry and observational details are the following: Date UT start t-T0 Exp. Filter Obj. Err. UL Site/Telescope (mid,days) (n*s) (3sigma) 2026-06-02 15:45:12 0.87559 20*120 R n/d n/d 21.1 Mondy/AZT-33IK The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars (R2-magnitudes) and is not corrected for Galactic extinction. View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/44803. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...