› Forums › Exoplanets › The quest for ET (Exoplanet Transits not Extra-Terrestrials that is) › “go to the website and
11 January 2020 at 3:49 pm
#581888
Dr Paul Leyland
Participant
“go to the website and register your observatory as a future participant mentioning in the ‘Comments’ box that you are an amateur astronomer and that you are joining the BAA Exoplanet Division’s initiative to support the ExoClock Project.”
Been there, done that.
Clear skies are erratic in these parts. It was (mostly) clear last night but with ferociously high katabatic winds so no observing was done. In those conditions the seeing is typically 15-20 arcsec and the scope flaps around on a similar scale, ruining tracking, even though it is inside a dome.