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Originally Posted by ngcles
Hi Trevor,
You may however be able to detect a drop in brightness of the star due to esentially, a shallow annular eclipse, as the exoplanet transit takes place. Such a drop in magnitude would be very slight (really tiny actually) and have to be detected photometrically. I'm not sure, but I seem to remember somewhere that some amateurs have in fact detected exo-planet transits in this way with large telescopes and CCD.
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Yes, amazing Les! There are quite a few amateurs in the field now, providing good CCD-based transit data. Here's a few links:
http://www.aavso.org/observing/progr...itsearch.shtml
http://brucegary.net/AXA/x.htm
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~microfun/
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