WASP-11b/HAT-P-10b in Aries (latest discovery)

Dear friends,

Approximately two weeks ago we had the announcement surrounding the latest exoplanet discovery. To be more specific, two independent xoplanet hunting teams (WASP and HatNet) announced their discovery of an exoplanet in Aries which has the least mass of any exoplanet discovered to-date and which is hosted by an 11.89 magnitude K-type dwarf star.

Since the WASP announcement preceeded that from the HATNet project team by a few days, it received priority in the joint naming of the latest find to WASP-11/HAT-P-10.

For the first amateur light curve surrounding the latest discovery, I kindly direct you to my result from early this morning based on 4.5 hours total data.

www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photometry-WASP-11-20081009.htm

My newly arrived ST-10XME showed off its stuff for first light in a most impressive fashion and as indicated by the quality of the light curve. There were transparency issues all evening due to a brief weather front making its way here and which made things really ugly near the end of my session.

Hi Anthony,

That is an excellent light curve. Presumably the predicted timings were on schedule.

Well done!

Eamonn A

kingslandobservatory.com

That's excellent work Anthony.
You're homing in on your own exoplanet dioscovery!
Keep it up!

You're homing in on your own exoplanet dioscovery!

I was just thinking the same thing when I looked at the light curve. Out of all of us on this site Anto has the best chance of getting a decent run of clear sky nights. I hate him :lol: :X

Anthony - that's a super capture and well done on getting it so quick! That 10XME will be a real weapon in your arsenal - along with the AP mount of course

Congratulations and well done - I know your forays into exoplanet work is genuinely held in very high regard on the AP lists and here - and so it should be.

Dave