Amateur astronomers from all over the world are currently registering to help professional astronomers monitor the lights of stars that are known to have planets orbiting them, in order to monitor the known planets and try to locate additional planets in the same systems.
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Amateur astronomers from all over the world are currently registering to help professional astronomers monitor the lights of stars that are known to have planets orbiting them, in order to monitor the known planets and try to locate additional planets in the same systems.
Astronomers in the US have established a program that coordinates observational efforts to discover more exoplanets and provide additional data on the planets that have already been discovered.
In the appeal they drafted, they ask the enthusiasts to sign a program known as Transitsearch, the purpose of which is to encourage the detection of planets passing between us and their parent star." So reports the scientific magazine New Scientist.
The program was initiated by Tim Castellano of NASA's Ames Research Center and Greg Loughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz after they learned that an amateur astronomer from Finland had drawn the path of a planet around the star HD 209458. Now they are asking enthusiasts around the world to monitor systems that are already known to orbit at least one planet and send their results, which also include a prediction of when the planet will pass between us and its sun again to the website www.transitsearch.org
The scientists now expect that the information about the transit will provide data about the mass and density of the planets, as well as the composition and structure of their atmospheres.
Collaboration between professional astronomers and amateurs is not new, but it is increasing due to the decline in the availability of quality astronomical equipment that is now within the reach of many amateurs. concluded the magazine.
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