Task for this week - W/S 14 August

Start introduction.
Research a little more on the subject.
Research techniques.

First chance to view transit

Robotic telescope should be ready by Science Week - 14-08 to 18-08
First chance to view transit 23-08

Start transit: 2453970.99 2006 8 23 11 49 21 49
Mid-transit: 2453971.11 2006 8 23 14 45 00+1 45
End transit: 2453971.24 2006 8 23 17 41 03+1 41

Possible Transit?

Thanks to Transitsearch, I may have found some possible transit times. I should be requesting this for late august/early september.

Complete page

Possible transits

Transits to be perused and matched with applicable time for telescope on Mt Kent.
Queensland is UTC +10, so minus 10 from the time and the one that fits between approximately 9pm to 4am will be a candidate.
Use "The Sky" to find the appropriate match.

Update of possible transits for August and September 2006

Hmm...a little too low methinks:



















Lowest angle to view should be 20 degrees.

Useful Links

While I think of it, might be worthwhile adding these to the blog so all of the links are centralised here.

This project involves photometry of a known transiting exoplanet from the list at:

http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/boss/planets.html

http:///www.transitsearch.org

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

http://skyandtelescope.com/printable/news/article_1347.asp

http://skyandtelescope.com/printable/news/article_1403.asp

IRIS

IRIS: "An astronomical images processing software."
http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm

Photometry Tutorial here.

...looks pretty straightforward...I wonder what the catch is :)

Tasks for this week - W/S 7 August

Last week was a disaster, let's try again...

Results from last week:
Data on Star and Planet below.
Have installed IRIS, haven't completed any tutorials as yet (today)
Period found, transit not found.
Skimmed sites, further reading today.
Write introduction.