The Magic Telescope and the Observation of Gamma Ray

— The MAGIC Telescope, now taking data with an energy threshold well below 100 GeV, will soon be able to take full advantage of the fast slewing capability of its altazimuthal mount. Exploiting the link with the GCN network, the MAGIC Telescope could be one of the first ground-based experiments able to see the prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts in the few tens of GeV region. PACS 95.55.Ka – X-and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation. PACS 95.85.Pw – Astronomical observations: gamma-ray. PACS 98.70.Rz – gamma-ray sources; gamma-ray bursts. The MAGIC Collaboration started to build the Telescope since the beginning of 2001. The MAGIC Telescope entered the commissioning phase in October 2003 and had, since then, observed few different sources at different redshifts. The telescope is one of the so-called last generation Cherenkov telescopes and can explore the electromagnetic spectrum starting well below ∼ 100 GeV. Besides MAGIC[1], built at 2, 200 m a.s.l. in the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, there are three other Collaborations working with last generation Cherenkov telescopes: HESS[2] (Windhoek, Namibia), CANGAROO[3] (Woomera, Australia) and VERITAS[4] (Horseshoe Canyon, Arizona, USA). While these last three are actually an array of telescopes (4 CANGAROO, 7 VERITAS and 4, at the beginning, also HESS), MAGIC