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.
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.
