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Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 26 Jul 2017 17:40
by alfa015
Hi! I would like to share with you guys the easiest way you can find potentially habitable exoplanets from home:

[youtube]xvjhnhRUxK4[/youtube]

Have you already tried it?

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 26 Jul 2017 18:19
by Hornblower
I tried it a while back. Most of the real exoplanets have already been discovered...

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 26 Jul 2017 21:22
by Watsisname
It is also unlikely you will able to detect "potentially habitable" planets (terrestrial sized) with this method -- the transit depths are too small and will be lost in the noise.  You can get decent photometry of transiting gas giants, though.

Added:  You can also use a simple camera for observing eclipsing binaries, and get scientifically useful information from it.

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:27
by Salvo
You can also use a simple camera for observing eclipsing binaries, and get scientifically useful information from it.
Do you mean that we could observe eclipsing binaries using our personal instruments?  :)

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:50
by Watsisname

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:46
by alfa015
glad some of you tried it!
here the new of the discovery of some of them by amateurs: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-06/stargazing-live-four-planets-discovered-in-new-solar-system/8423142

by the way, could any admin please move this thread to the 'Science and Astronomy Discussions' subforum? 

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 27 Jul 2017 11:27
by SpaceEngineer
by the way, could any admin please move this thread to the 'Science and Astronomy Discussions' subforum? 
Done. Also fixed the OP, use the youtube BB code (the last button on the message editor toolbar).

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 28 Jul 2017 05:36
by alfa015
by the way, could any admin please move this thread to the 'Science and Astronomy Discussions' subforum? 
Done. Also fixed the OP, use the youtube BB code (the last button on the message editor toolbar).
ah perfect, thank you!

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 04 Aug 2017 04:04
by Jackdaw
You know what, CCP's MMORPG space sim game Eve Online has a Project Discovery, in which players could help analyse data from CoRoT satellite and look for transit signals. It's a cooperation between CCP and Geneva University, and it's lead by Michel Mayor (co-discoverer of 51 Pegasi b, the first discovered exoplanet around main sequence stars). ImageImageImageImageImageImage

Easiest way YOU can find exoplanets from home

Posted: 04 Aug 2017 11:28
by problemecium
^ I was just about to come here and mention that myself ^^

Find exoplanets with a videogame

Posted: 05 Aug 2017 19:34
by alfa015
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Hi everybody! The other day I noticed there is a new way anybody can find exoplanets, through a videogame, so I decided to make a video: 



Have you already played the game?

Find exoplanets with a videogame

Posted: 06 Aug 2017 15:41
by styrax
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Definitely interesting, but I would not call it a "video game"...

Find exoplanets with a videogame

Posted: 06 Aug 2017 16:09
by XBrain130
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Definitely interesting, but I would not call it a "video game"...
EVE Online is a videogame, specifically a well-known sci-fi MMORPG. This seems to be just a little part that basically amounts to a minigame.

Find exoplanets with a videogame

Posted: 07 Aug 2017 09:21
by Jackdaw
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See my post in this thread :D

Find exoplanets with a videogame

Posted: 11 Aug 2017 07:53
by alfa015
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Definitely interesting, but I would not call it a "video game"...
EVE Online is a videogame, specifically a well-known sci-fi MMORPG. This seems to be just a little part that basically amounts to a minigame.
indeed