TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 3136 SUBJECT: GRB 050319: Absorption redshift from the Nordic Optical Telescope DATE: 05/03/22 09:08:13 GMT FROM: Johan U. Fynbo at U.Copenhagen GRB 050319: Absorption redshift from the Nordic Optical Telescope Johan P. U. Fynbo, Jens Hjorth, Brian L. Jensen, Pall Jakobsson (Niels Bohr Institute), Palle Moller (ESO), Jyri Näränen (Nordic Optical Telescope) report: "Using ALFOSC on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) we have obtained spectra of the afterglow of GRB 050319 (GCN 3116, 3117) on 2005, March 20 UT. We find several absorption features, including strong Lyman-alpha, OI+SiII, SiIV and CIV, corresponding to a redshift of z=3.24."