First Exoplanet Transit (Qatar-1b)

[matt_baker]

Tried my hand at measuring exoplanet transits with very modest equipment.

Here's the curve I managed to get, not the prettiest I know but there were unexpected clouds all last night so probably skewed the measurements, plus the fact I'm using a pixel scale of 1.20" pp

I used Muniwin to process the lightcurve and uploaded it to the exoplanet transit database.

Took 106x60s exposures to get this.

[andrew s]

Well done nice work.

Regards Andrew 

 

[Tomatobro]

Wow I am very impressed.

[Sunshine]

No idea how you measured that but, impressive indeed.

[tomato]

Nice work, detecting exoplanets from your backyard, I like it.👍

I presume you had prior knowledge of the exoplanet star identity and transit time, may I ask where you obtained this information?

[Tomatobro]

Had a look at ETD (Exoplanet transit database).  You put in your latitude and longitude and it gives you the stars and timing data.

 

[matt_baker]

I think for England you have to put your longitude as -1 since they for some reason put it as "East Longitude" and most of England is West