TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 2428 SUBJECT: GRB 031026: Ic Observations DATE: 03/10/26 15:03:43 GMT FROM: Melissa Nysewander at UNC,Chapel Hill M.C. Nysewander, J.A. Moran, D. Reichart (Univ. of North Carolina) & M. Schwartz (Tenagra Observatories) on behalf of the FUN GRB collaboration report: We began observations in Ic of the error box of HETE trigger 2882 (GRB 031026) at 09:30:10 UT (3.9 hrs after the burst) with the 32-inch Tenagra II telescope. 99% of the error box was covered in four pointings, with a total integration time of 1350s per pointing. Comparison to the POSS2 Red & IR images yields no candidates down to the approximate limiting magnitude of the plates, which we estimate to be Ic ~ 19.