The Evryscope is a two-dozen-camera gigapixel-scale robotic telescope, which continuously
images 8,000 square degrees in 2-minute exposures. The photometric performance reaches
5-10 millimag levels on a bright stars, depending on cadence, and on fainter objects
is sufficient to detect planets around nearby cool main sequence stars and a host
of other objects including eclipsing binaries, stellar activity, and microlensing
events. The telescope also provides fast cadence observations necessary for detecting
minute time-scale exoplanet transits, which would occur around small, compact host
stars including white dwarfs and hot subdwarfs. The Evryscope South has been collecting
data continuously since deployment to CTIO in mid-2015, and has produced millions
of images and 100s of terabytes of data. Evryscope North is under construction and
will be deployed to Mt. Laguna observatory in partnership with San Diego State University
(SDSU) in late 2018. We present the instrument design, construction, solutions to
unique challenges, results of ongoing surveys including searches for exoplanets in
exotic star systems, a gas giant exoplanet candidate, low-mass stellar companion discoveries,
and stellar activity characterization.
