Re: WASP-11b/HAT-P-10b in Aries (latest discovery)

On 21 Οκτ, 22:31, chris1...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 9, 6:34 am, Anthony Ayiomamitis <ayiomami...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Dear group,

Approximately two weeks ago we had the announcement surrounding the
latest exoplanet discovery. To be more specific, two independent
exoplanet hunting teams (WASP and HatNet) announced their discovery of
an exoplanet in Aries which has the least mass of any exoplanet
discovered to-date and which is hosted by an 11.89 magnitude K-type
dwarf star.

Since the WASP announcement preceeded that from the HATNet project
team by a few days, it received priority in the joint naming of the
latest find to WASP-11/HAT-P-10.

For the first amateur light curve surrounding the latest discovery, I
kindly direct you to my result from early this morning based on 4.5
hours total data.

http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photometry-WASP-11-20081009.htm

My newly arrived ST-10XME showed off its stuff for first light in a
most impressive fashion and as indicated by the quality of the light
curve. There were transparency issues all evening due to a brief
weather front making its way here and which made things really ugly
near the end of my session.

Anthony.

great stuff Anthony!

Rolando

Thanks Rolando.

I set-up this evening for two exoplanets back-to-back and with about
90 minutes between them but the elements did me in. Back at it again
tomorrow with hopefully better conditions for the transit involving
XO-2b in Lynx at a depth of only 12 mmag.

Clear skies!

Anthony.
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