Observation by Dave Smith: My second exoplanet detection

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Dave Smith

Observer

Dave Smith

Observed

2018 May 04 - 23:00

Uploaded

2018 May 05 - 12:34

Objects

Lightcurve
Exoplanet

Equipment

William Optics Megrez 90 with 0.8x FR
Atik 460EX mono camera
Johnson V filter

Exposure

multiple 120s

Location

Maldon

Target name

Qatar-1b

Title

My second exoplanet detection

About this image

The red lines show approximately the predicted start and finish times of the transit. i.e. 21:41 start and 23:18 finish UT.
The predicted drop in magnitude was 0.0204 mag. The difference between my measurements averaged is 0.017 mag which I am very happy with.

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Qatar-1bc.jpg (77.3 kB)

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