From: "Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D." <tredding@mac.com>

Date: March 2, 2010 9:39:02 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] ExoPlanet Database

Milton, thank you for this.

I am one of those who will be trying.  BTW, what camera would you recommend I use?

Terry - W6LMJ - 14.287 

Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. 

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On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:49 PM, milton_aupperle wrote:

Hi Folks;

In case any of you are interested in trying to do ExoPlanet Transit photometric light curve using Astro IIDC, I found a really great interactive database that lists known exoplanets and details on them:

http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/index.php

The cool part is their Transit Predictions site:

http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/predictions.php

Enter your East Longitude and Latitude, it predicts what transits are visible for your location. That makes it a lot easier to prioritize targets and see if you can detect them. I suspect under good conditions I can probably detect a 0.03 magnitude change, but some of them are 0.005 or lower and are well beyond my skies.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle