TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 3569 SUBJECT: PROMPT Rc Observations of GRB 050709 DATE: 05/07/11 03:38:54 GMT FROM: Matt Bayliss at UNC,Chapel Hill M. Bayliss, J. Haislip, A. Foster, D. Reichart report on behalf of the UNC team of the FUN GRB Collaboration: The PROMPT-5 telescope automatically responded to HETE2-SXC alert 3862 for GRB 050709 and imaged the field for 3600s in Rc beginning approximately 27 hours after the time of the GRB. Preliminary analysis reveals no new source down to the limit of the DSS. PROMPT is still being built and commissioned.