BAA Exoplanet Division Online Workshop

This workshop is being held as a Zoom meeting to allow participants to interact. The Zoom link will be sent to booked attendees.

Below image courtesy of NASA.

Programme

9:30 Zoom meeting opens

10:00-10:30 Introduction by Roger Dymock

• Exoplanet Division update
• EXPLORE introduction

10:30-11:15 Ariel and ExoClock with Anastasia Kokori

• Mission and observational efficiency
• ExoClock – a model of pro-am collaboration

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:15 EXPLORE Part 1 – Detecting exoplanets with Rodney Buckland

• Observation
• Modelling
• Searching databases
• Zooniverse

12:15-12:45 How to discover an exoplanet (telescope and camera not required) with Roger Dymock

12:45-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:15 EXPLORE Part 2 with Martin Crow

• Introduction to HOPS
• Synchronous observations to detect shallow transits
• Data mining transit observations for variable star photometry

14:15- 15:00 AstroImageJ with Richard Lee

• An alternative to HOPS

15:00-15:15 Break

15:15-15:45 Observing with robotic telescopes by Rodney Buckland

15:45-16:00 EXPLORE NEEDS EXPLORERS with Roger Dymock

16:00-16:30 Q&A with Roger Dymock, Rodney Buckland and Martin Crow

16:30 Close

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