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Originally Posted by RobF
I was just thinking about this the other day actually. Wondering if anyone with "pretty pictures" type equipment (refractors, smaller newts etc) had succeeded in demonstrating KNOWN explanets .
Separate to serious search for new ones obviously, but would be cool to "see" the brightness dip and know what you'd demonstrating with your own scope.
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Sure! Last year I attempted it. At the time I was using an NEQ6, Canon 450D and a Celestron 130SLT 5" f/5 newt. I found the transit time for WASP-35B, shot 30s subs for like 4hours, and after 24 hours of grueling headbashing trying to figure out how to get IRIS to work, I managed to produce data that was acceptable. Granted, I never got the flat frames to work, which was a huge mistake when doing photometry. Now I have PixInsight, I intend on trying the data set again by calibrating in PI, and then doing the photometry in IRIS.
Anyway, even if the data came out ****, there is still an obvious dip there, which really blew my socks off!
http://i.imgur.com/gBgCyUc.png
Obviously, the magnitide delta is completly off
, but I was running on lack of sleep being in the middle of my Yr11 exam block!
