Transient Events for iPhone

Download the new Transient Events Application at the iTunes Store!

The heavens are much more dynamic than most people realize. Every night stars and galaxies vary in brightness and comets move through our solar system. The astronomy community has survey telescopes monitoring the sky on a regular basis looking for objects which vary in brightness or position in the night sky. The images from these telescopes are analyzed automatically and variable objects are published through CACR’s Skyalert system. Transient Events currently receives events from CACR’s Catalina Real-Time Survey (CRTS), with more surveys to be added in the future. Transient Events provides an easy-to-use application to monitor these events. (Read more about the features of the Transient Events iPhone App)

The real-time event discovery, processing, and dissemination of events is made possible by NASA under grant NNG05GF22G, and by the NSF under grants AST-0909182 (CRTS) and OCI-0915473 (Skyalert). Creation of the Transient Events application was funded by the the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).