  ASTRI (Astrofisica a Specchi con Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) is a
"Flagship Project" financed by the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University
and Research and led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. It
represents the Italian proposal for the development of the Small Size Telescope
system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the next generation observatory for
Very High Energy gamma-rays (20 GeV - 100 TeV). The ASTRI end-to-end prototype
will be installed at Serra La Nave (Catania, Italy) and it will see the first
light at the beginning of 2014. We describe the expected performance of the
prototype on few selected test cases of the northern emisphere. The aim of the
prototype is to probe the technological solutions and the nominal performance
of the various telescope's subsystems.
