When I look at that data, all I see is squiggly lines and dots. What shows, in that data, that there is an exoplanet? Also, what is the site you ran the data through? ++++++++++++++++++ Troy Davidson www.istroyworking.com On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I've heard it said that those who take pretty pictures get excited by pictures while those that take data get excited by squiggly lines.
A couple of nights ago I spent the night taking single images once a minute for about 5 hours.
Ok, not that exciting.
But then I reduced the data and fed them into an online site that works with exo-planets and got the following squiggly lines.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/wasp3b01.jpg
Excitement reigns!
I still find it amazing that even someone with my amateur equipment is able to detect the passage of a planet in front of a star 727 light years away. I mean, put another way, the event I imaged actually happened in the year 1283. Wild!
BTW, just for fun I googled "what happened in 1283" and found that was the year the prince of Gwynedd became the first person executed by drawing and quartering. :)
At any rate, what's say we get a few more folks on this list to take data (MUCH easier than making pretty pictures)?
Carpe Noctem!
patrick
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