BATSE observations of GX 354‐0

The transient hard x‐ray source and burster GX 354‐0 (MXB 1728‐34) has been detected several times since April 1991 using the newly‐developed occultation transform imaging to process data from the BATSE large area detectors (20‐1800 keV) on the COMPTON Observatory. One period corresponds to observations of an outburst seen by GRANAT/SIGMA in February 1992 (Goldwurm et al. 1992). This exploratory effort uses the occultation imaging technique to guide the identification of bright galactic center region sources within a few‐degree field. Then, using this information, temporal and spectral information is extracted with the standard occultation software.