Volume 29 number 1 (2001)
We propose to use the Landolt Selected Areas (SAs) as convenient photometric fields to calibrate magnitudes and colors of faint supernovae and optical counterparts or “flashes” associated with transient gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The spacing of and established photometric sequences in the SAs makes them convenient reference fields to interleave with CCD images of suspected time-variable objects for transformation of instrumental magnitudes and colors to standardized systems.