TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 3122 SUBJECT: GRB 050318: Absorption redshift from Magellan DATE: 05/03/19 20:54:57 GMT FROM: Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs Edo Berger and John Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories) report: "Using IMACS on the Magellan/Baade telescope we also obtained spectra of the afterglow of GRB 050318 (GCN 3114) on 2005, March 19 UT. We find several absorption features corresponding to two redshift systems at z=1.20 and z=1.44. We conclude that the redshift of GRB 050318 is z=1.44."