  The MAGIC collaboration has studied the high peaked BL-Lac object
1ES1218+30.4 at a redshift z = 0.182, using the MAGIC imaging air Cherenkov
telescope located on the Canary island of La Palma. A gamma-ray signal was
observed with 6.4sigma significance. The differential energy spectrum for an
energy threshold of 120GeV can be fitted by a simple power law yielding F_E(E)
= (8.1+-2.1)*10^-7 (E/250GeV)^(-3.0+-0.4) TeV^-1 m^-2 s^-1. During the six days
of observation in January 2005 no time variability on time scales of days was
found within the statistical errors. The observed integral flux above 350GeV is
nearly a factor two below the the upper limit reported by the Whipple
Collaboration in 2003.
