  The Angstrom Project is undertaking an optical survey of stellar microlensing
events across the bulge region of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) using a
distributed network of two-meter class telescopes. The Angstrom Project Alert
System (APAS) has been developed to identify in real time candidate
microlensing and transient events using data from the Liverpool and Faulkes
North robotic telescopes. This is the first time that real-time microlensing
discovery has been attempted outside of the Milky Way and its satellite
galaxies. The APAS is designed to enable follow-up studies of M31 microlensing
systems, including searches for gas giant planets in M31. Here we describe the
APAS and we present a few example light curves obtained during its
commissioning phase which clearly demonstrate its real-time capability to
identify microlensing candidates as well as other transient sources.
