Next: Image Reduction Pipeline for the Detection of Variable Sources in Highly Crowded Fields . Up: Data Management and Pipelines . ... The primary goal of Raptor is ambitious: to identify interesting optical transients from very wide field of view telescopes in real time, and then to quickly point the higher resolution Raptor ``fovea'' cameras and spectrometer to the location of the optical transient. ... The main abstractions we use in the software pipeline are: . ...