Lasair Cookbook

Lasair is a community broker of astronomical transients, with an emphasis of rapid delivery of those alerts of interest to astronomers. Please find below a number of visual recipes so that you can exploit what Lasair can provide.

• How to do a Cone Search

• Rich Object Information

• How to query transients

• Build a watchlist of your sources

• Find outbursts from my watchlist

• Get real-time alerts from Lasair

• Reading a Kafka stream

• Gravitational Wave Skymaps