Comments on: Nova in Sagittarius http://pewaukeeastro.com/blog/2009/10/28/nova-in-sagittarius/ News and Information About the Pewaukee Astronomy Club and the Harken Observatory Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: rbuchwald http://pewaukeeastro.com/blog/2009/10/28/nova-in-sagittarius/comment-page-1/#comment-14 rbuchwald Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:36:55 +0000 http://pewaukeeastro.com/blog/?p=87#comment-14 Hi Tim and all - yes, there is an exoplanet that is within our capabilities. It orbits a 9th magnitude star in Ursa Major. It has a rather eccentric orbit and a transit will occur next on January 13-14th, 2010. Ingress starts around 5:30PM and ends at about 2AM. I think that it would be worth a try! The planet is identified as HD80606b. We need to hit about 1% precision in the light measurement. I think that maybe some continuous averaging of data, with many frames in series would be useful (albeit a lot of work). The "big folks" are looking for data so maybe we can help if the sky is clear! Hi Tim and all – yes, there is an exoplanet that is within our capabilities. It orbits a 9th magnitude star in Ursa Major. It has a rather eccentric orbit and a transit will occur next on January 13-14th, 2010. Ingress starts around 5:30PM and ends at about 2AM. I think that it would be worth a try! The planet is identified as HD80606b. We need to hit about 1% precision in the light measurement. I think that maybe some continuous averaging of data, with many frames in series would be useful (albeit a lot of work). The “big folks” are looking for data so maybe we can help if the sky is clear!

]]> By: twalkowski http://pewaukeeastro.com/blog/2009/10/28/nova-in-sagittarius/comment-page-1/#comment-11 twalkowski Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:17:35 +0000 http://pewaukeeastro.com/blog/?p=87#comment-11 Randy, Very cool! I was unaware of the nova until I read your post. Great to see that the observatory can be used for science as well as pretty pictures! Was the nova very low in the sky? Do you think any stars with transiting planets are within the observatory's reach? Randy,
Very cool! I was unaware of the nova until I read your post. Great to see that the observatory can be used for science as well as pretty pictures! Was the nova very low in the sky? Do you think any stars with transiting planets are within the observatory’s reach?

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