XO-2 exo planet

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XO-2 exo planet

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Hi,

Just in time before the haze set in and after several showers on the same day, I finally managed to capture over two hours of data and the beginning of transit of an exo planet (XO-2).

Somehow I cannot link images into the messages ... here is the final result:

Image

The transit start was anticipated for 23:22 Singapore time, friday night.

Here is the target:
Image

and the imaging setup:
Image

I'll make a webpage explaining the choice of target, parameters and settings to do such a project.
Next in line is another candidate better located for imaging a complete transit... in a few months time ... hopefully we will not have haze this year ...

Cheers

Jean-Yves
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Hi,
I cut and paste your image tag and post it using IE 7 and it does display the image. Below is the result:
Somehow I cannot link images into the messages ... here is the final result:

Image

The transit start was anticipated for 23:22 Singapore time, friday night.

Here is the target:
Image

and the imaging setup:
Image
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing
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Post by weixing »

Hi,
I edit your post and I think I found out the reason already.

You had checked the "Disable BBCode in this post" option. Don't check it next time you post or uncheck it if it checked by default.

Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing
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Post by Meng Lee »

All "educational" observatories in Singapore please look at this post. This can be a project that the "white elephants" can do.
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Post by ChaosKnight »

Impressive. Up one for JY who is doing real science.

JY, maybe you could do some averaging. Instead of plotting absolute magnitude, you could bin and average the data to remove fluctuations caused by turbulence.
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Hi! Impressive! [smilie=wow.gif]
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Post by JY »

Thanks and yes: that's just the raw results, I will take some time and gather/plot/calculate the results.

There is also an interesting variable in the same star field with a period of just below one hour ... a nice sinusoide fits the data ...

I guess I'll have an update in a webpage within a week,

Cheers

JY
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Here is an updated webpage.
Cheers

JY

http://www.lesbeninger.com/xo2.html
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