All Sky Automated Survey

[not verified in body] The idea was initiated by the Polish astronomy Professor Bohdan Paczyński of Princeton University.

The automatic telescope, located in Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, was designed to register the brightness of circa one million stars in the Southern Hemisphere.

The project was then expanded, and now operates four telescopes located in Las Campanas Observatory.

[2] So far, ASAS has discovered 50,000 variables located south of declination +28°, which means that it has covered 3/4 of all the sky.

Routine work such as exchanging of the data is done by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) observers.

[3] Grzegorz Pojmański is supported in the project by the State Committee for Scientific Research, Poland.

Each of them is equipped with the Apogee 2Kx2K CCD camera, located in the custom-made automated enclosure.

FOV and observes only a few selected fields in purpose to test instrument sensitivity for fast transient events.

ASAS-3 is directly connected to the BACODINE General Coordinates Network and is ready for immediate follow-up observations of GRB events.