Catalina Sky Survey Spawns Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey

By Ben on August 31, 2009 at 1:29 am | In Blog Posts | No Comments

this should be  good on-line resource.

–Ben

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Catalina Sky Survey Spawns Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey

The Catalina Sky Survey detects potentially hazardous asteroids and comets. Now a spin-off survey is finding a windfall of “optical transients” in the same data…

…Thanks to the $890,000 NSF grant awarded this month, the CRTS team soon will construct a Web site that will make roughly 10 terabytes of data taken by the Catalina Sky Survey over the past five years –- as well all new CSS data that continues to stream in — available over the Internet to astronomers worldwide, professional and amateur.

The Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey will be the first and only fully public synoptic sky survey, team members say. It’s a bargain-rate boon to astronomers who are trying to figure out how to manage enormous data streams to be delivered by future synoptic sky survey telescopes…

…Researchers will be able to compare real-time CSS images to any image in the 5-year CSS archive…

http://uanews.org/node/26922

http://crts.caltech.edu/

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/