GRB 241029A: AKO Optical Afterglow Detection

We observed the field of GRB 241029A detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 37932), SVOM/ECLAIRs & SVOM/GRM (Schanne et al., GCN 37934; Wang et al., GCN 37935), with our 0.36m f/7.7 robotic telescope. The observation started on 29 October 2024 at 15:36 (UT), 13.3 hours from the trigger. We obtained multiple 180-sec exposures in Ic filter. We barely detected the optical afterglow at: R.A. (J2000): 21:41:20.11 Dec. (J2000): +05:04:53.2 Our detection is consistent with the results of (Jiang et al., GCN 37937; Lin et al., GCN 37939; Jiang et al., GCN 37940; Francile et al., GCN 37941; Ackley et al., GCN 37943). The following observation was calculated using Atlas catalogue as a reference: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ObsTime (mid), Exposure (sec), Filter, Mag ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 2024-10-29T16:18:15Z, 28 x 180s (stacked), Ic, 19.9 +/- 0.32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The magnitude is not corrected for galactic extinction.