Recently I have started with observing variable stars. For this I have been measuring v363 cas and its surroundings. In this area four/five nice variables were visible in my field of view. Here is an overview of the generated lightcurves together with the estimates from the AAVSO database….
After my first exoplanet last week I got a taste for more, and so I made another attempt to detect an exoplanet last night. Now there was a transit of Wasp-12b, a special exoplanet, discovered in 2008, described as follows on wikipedia: —————————————————————————————————- The planet is so close to WASP-12 that the star’s tidal forces …
Qatar-1b is a gas-giant planet, 1.1 times more massive than Jupiter and with a diameter 1.2 times that of Jupiter. It orbits an orange dwarf star (named Qatar-1 in honour of the discovery, catalogue number 3UC311-087990) which is located 170 parsecs (550 light-years) from Earth in the northern constellation of Draco. At this distance, the …
Shown here is a lightcurve measured of a binary star system transiting each other during a rotation period.
Qatar-1b is a gas-giant planet, 1.1 times more massive than Jupiter and with a diameter 1.2 times that of Jupiter. It orbits an orange dwarf star (named Qatar-1 in honour of the discovery, catalogue number 3UC311-087990) which is located 170 parsecs (550 light-years) from Earth in the northern constellation of Draco. At this distance, the …