This project aims to study an exoplanet transit using Mt Kent Observatory's robotic telescope. The star chosen was the 7.7 magnitude HD 189733 in Vulpecula, which has a very hot jupiter in close orbit (HD 189733b). This star is a K dwarf, 63 light years away. RA 20h 00.7m, Dec +22 43'. This transit was originally found by the Geneva Observatory, Switzerland.
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://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
http://skyandtelescope.com/printable/news/article_1347.asp
posted by Peter at Monday, August 07, 2006
Physics and Astronomy technician. This blog is still being set up, so please disregard it being a little light on the pretty stuff (for now) I can be found on twitter as @graveling and @astrograveling.
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