An open optical transient survey




Telescopes

CRTS uses data from three telescopes run by the Catalina Sky Survey. More details about these can be found here. Each telescope currently uses a 4k X 4k CCD and avoids the Galactic plane by 10 deg because of crowding.

MLS

The Mt. Lemmon Survey 1.5m Cass

CSS

Catalina Sky Survey 0.7m Schmidt

SSS

Siding Springs Survey 0.5m Schmidt

Survey region (deg) +/- 5 deg ecliptic
-25 < Dec < +70
-80 < Dec < 0
Field of View (square deg) 1.2
8.1
4.2
Mag limit (V) 21.5
19.5
19.0
Coverage      All telescopes
Coverage

Coverage

Coverage