TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 3706 SUBJECT: GRB050730: Liverpool Telescope optical observations DATE: 05/07/30 21:53:17 GMT FROM: Andreja Gomboc at LT,ARI,Liverpool JMU A. Gomboc, C. Guidorzi, I.A. Steele, A. Monfardini, C.G. Mundell, C.J. Mottram, R.J. Smith, D. Carter, M.F. Bode (Liverpool JMU) report: The 2-m Liverpool Telescope followed up the Swift GRB050730 (Holland et al, GCN 3704) and started observing its position at UT 20:37:21. The GRB pipeline automatically detected an OT candidate at the position RA 14:08:17.13, dec -03:46:17.7 (J2000) in agreement with the candidate from UVOT (Holland et al., GCN 3704) and Sota et al. (GCN 3705). The magnitude of the source is r'~17.3 (USNO-B1 calibrated) at ~50 min after the burst. This message can be cited. > > > >