  The Panoramic Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PANOSETI) experiment
is designed to detect pulsed optical signals on nanosecond timescales. PANOSETI
is therefore sensitive to Cherenkov radiation generated by extensive air
showers, and can be used for gamma-ray astronomy. Each PANOSETI telescope uses
a 0.5 m Fresnel lens to focus light onto a 1024 pixel silicon photomultiplier
camera that images a 9.9$^\circ\times$9.9$^\circ$ square field of view. Recent
detections of PeV gamma-rays from extended sources in the Galactic Plane
motivate constructing an array with effective area and angular resolution
surpassing current observatories. The PANOSETI telescopes are much smaller and
far more affordable than traditional imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
(IACT), making them ideal instruments to construct such an array. We present
the results of coincident observations between two PANOSETI telescopes and the
gamma-ray observatory VERITAS, along with simulations characterizing the
performance of a PANOSETI IACT array.
