Squiggly lines are good
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
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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Troy, the dip indicates the transiting of an exoplanet. Patrick was able to detect the reduced light from a star that happened when a planet passed in front. It's an amazing accomplishment. -- Joe --- On Sat, 8/28/10, Troy Davidson <clandaith@gmail.com> wrote: From: Troy Davidson <clandaith@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Squiggly lines are good To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 8:51 AM 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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Hi Troy, On 28 Aug 2010, at 08:51, Troy Davidson wrote:
When I look at that data, all I see is squiggly lines and dots. What shows, in that data, that there is an exoplanet?
Look closely and amongst all the vertical lines and dots you'll see a horizontal line with a "droop" in the middle. The droop shows the decrease and then the return of the star's light as the exo-planet transits the star.
Also, what is the site you ran the data through?
http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/protocol.php patrick :)
Sounds very interesting, but maybe when I retire. Too many other things going on now for me to grab more than a handful of nights per year at the telescope. I'm pretty sure all the exo planets, NEO, & Kuiper belt and Oort cloud objects won't be discovered in the next ten or twenty years. Keep up the great work, Patrick! On 8/28/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
At any rate, what's say we get a few more folks on this list to take data (MUCH easier than making pretty pictures)?
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