Guides/Tutorials

Updated 2023 December 17

AstroImageJ

AstroImageJ and BAA Photometry Database tutorial by Roger Dymock AstroImageJ.pdf
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his is a step by step tutorial using WASP-12b and HAT-P-25b images based mainly on Richard Lee’s guides listed below. Suggest beginners start here.

A Guide to AstroImagej Differential Photometry by Richard Lee https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/Tutorial_AIJ_Photometry_v2.06.pdf

Workflow based Guide to using AstroImageJ for Exoplanet Transit Photometry by Richard Lee https://britastro.org/2023/workflow-based-guide-to-using-astroimagej-for-exoplanet-transit-photometry

A practical guide to exoplanet observing’ by Denis M. Conti http://astrodennis.com/Guide.pdf

Plate solving/Track and Stack in AIJ by Richard Lee Plate solving, Track and Stack in AIJ.pdf

The AstroImageJ Cookbook by Grady Boyce, edited by Dennis Conti http://astrodennis.com/AIJCookbook.pdf

Other guides and tutorials

Amateur Astronomer Participation in the TESS Exoplanet Mission – Dennis Conti http://astrodennis.com/LocalGroupTESSPresentation.pdf

BAA Photometry Database https://britastro.org/photdb/
– Notes on submitting observations https://britastro.org/photdb/notes_submissions.php
– Uploading Observations https://britastro.org/photdb/help/UploadingObsToBAAPhotDb.pdf

Detect exoplanets by yourself with the cheapest equipment (YouTube video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHCppdWYs6w&list=PL3RiFKfZj3pv1ZqpFxuZinoGtUGEOankw

Exoplanet detection by radial velocity method (in French) http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/extrasolar/obs.htm 

Exoplanet detection by radial velocity method (translated into English mostly by Google with a little help from Roger Dymock)
Observation of the exoplanet 51 Pegasus b V2.pdf

Exoplanet detection by transit and doppler methods (in French) http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/exoplanet/exo_buil.pdf

Exoplanet Observing for Amateur Astronomers – Dennis Conti http://astrodennis.com/

Exoplanet observing for amateurs by Bruce L. Gary http://www.brucegary.net/book_EOA/EOA.pdf (or can purchased in paperback format)

Exoplanet Transit Database. Reduction and processing of the photometric data of exoplanet transits  https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2548

How to decide which exoplanet transits to observe https://www.paulanthonywilson.com/exoplanets-2/how-to-decide-on-which-exoplanet-candidates-to-observe/

Methods of detecting exoplanets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanets#Variable_star_timing

New tools and improvements in the Exoplanet Transit Database https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2011/01/epjconf_ohp2010_06008/epjconf_ohp2010_06008.html

Peranso – Downloading and analysing space mission data

The exoplanet transit method https://www.paulanthonywilson.com/exoplanets/exoplanet-detection-techniques/the-exoplanet-transit-method/

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