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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2010, Article ID 107569, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2010/107569 Research Article Scheduling in Targeted Transient Surveys and a New Telescope for CHASE ¨ 1 ´ ´ 1 ´ 1 ´ 2 1 Francisco Forster, Nicolas Lopez, Jose Maza, Petr Kubanek, and G. Pignata 1 Departamento de Astronomıa, Universidad de Chile, Camino el Observatorio, 1515 Las Condes, Chile ´ 2 Image Processing Laboratory, Universidad de Valencia, Polıgono La Coma s/n, Paterna, 46980 Valencia, Spain ´ ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Francisco Forster, fforster@das.uchile.cl Received 28 June 2009; Accepted 21 September 2009 Academic Editor: Alberto J. Castro-Tirado ¨ Copyright © 2010 Francisco Forster et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We present a method for scheduling observations in small field-of-view transient targeted surveys. The method is based on maximizing the probability of detection of transient events of a given type and age since occurrence; it requires knowledge of the time since the last observation for every observed field, the expected light curve of the event, and the expected rate of events in the fields where the search is performed. In order to test this scheduling strategy we use a modi