Exoplanet Transit HAT-P-5b in Lyra (13 mmag depth)

Anthony - well done. That's no mean feat though I guess its made easier somewhat by Rolando.

Do you do the processing, including the generating of the charts with AIP4Win? If so, how do you rate it? I have a birthday coming up (no, I don't expect you to buy it for me )

Wasp-3-b should be a doddle. What's next after that?

I'd join in by the way but weather has been appalling here.

Dave

Gentlemen,

Thanks for the kind words!

Dave, the processing starts with AIP4Win and I follow by parsing the output so as to match the requirements for an online curve generating facility at ostrava.astronomy.cz/plotter.php . I will then download the hires graphs from this site and customize them for my website.

I agree that WASP-3b should be an easy target in lieu of these particular results involving HAT-P-5b and we will know early Sunday morning. Last night I copied the initial 60 exposures once they became available and processed them on a second laptop and where I noticed the standard errors ranging from 7 to 9 mmag ... it was then I realized I had a genuine chance at capturing this transit with its 13 mmag depth.

As for Rolando, what can I say about the quality of his handcrafted optics? The results for HAT-P-5b are one further piece of evidence.

Is it worth me buying AIP4Win?

Hi Dave,

I am a big fan of the software and, in fact, its price is really cheap. I would go on to state that the book which accompanies the software is itself worth the total price.

There is also a Yahoo group for AIP4Win if you are interested.

My only regret is with the publisher (Willman-Bell) who do not have a European office and, to this end, the shipping charges to Europe can be quite steep since books are always heavy.

WOW Anthony youre becovning a pro at this.

Well done and Keep it up.

Hi Anthony,

Well done on this exoplanet candidate. It really feels good doing science,
making a contribution to the exoplanet research.

I got HD17156b exoplanet monitoring results published recently in this months May TA journal. This is the second one published.
BTW, Dave McD your details are published as well.

Like yourself, it is all in the planning and preparation.

I am planning to record a very rare event, which only happened 42 years ago. This is within the mutual occultations of some of the moons of Uranus.

The rare bit, which has never been done before is the recording of the two of the moons going behind the shadow of Uranus. The scientific part is the photometric analysis which may show a gravitational shift with either an early or later ingress and egress.

I have found from many years experience there is some serendipity with some of these fine tuned recordings. For example, when recording another occultation many years ago of Saturn, I recorded a 7 second diffuse brightening increase outside Saturns rings. I mentioned this to some other astronomers and they said it was probably an instrumental anomaly. Well, a month later a team of astronomers in Canada recorded the same event and got the same results as mine. Because I had discovered this simultaneously it turned out to be a hydrogen envelope around the rings of Saturn. The results were published in the prestigious journal NATURE. One of the space probes at the time did in fact confirm our results.

The point of this story is that you have just got to observe without any discolouration in thinking or preconceptions about what might happen at an event of this nature.

Good luck with your future exoplanet monitoring.

Eamonn A
MPC J62
www.kingslandobservatory.com