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Mar 12 2009, 11:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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Mar 13 2009, 10:11 AM
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I'll second that... superb blog Ustrax !!! ( ... something completely different ).
Did I understand correct that the photometer was already turned on for tests, but the dust cover will stay on another fortnight? |
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Mar 13 2009, 10:50 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Thanks, having Stu on the crew makes it worth of a visit...
If you have any suggestions please feel free to e-mail be about it... Phillipe, I don't know about the photometer being already turned on, it's possible, I'll try to check it today, but, for sure, the first light won't be acquired before the 26th, that's when the cover gets ejected. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 13 2009, 06:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 131 Joined: 31-May 08 From: San Carlos, California, USA Member No.: 4168 |
Thw twitter feed states that the photometer was switched on for testing on March 9th.
QUOTE Turned on Photometer for the first time. Planning to take lots of photometer initiation data overnight. 10:41 PM Mar 9th from twhirl Also says the cover is still on. QUOTE Took lots of data overnight. Will continue 4 most of today. Mostly to watch things. Still have the cover on. It comes off at L+19 days.
11:02 AM Mar 10th from twhirl |
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Mar 14 2009, 10:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
Testing: The complexity of modern spacecraft is amazing. Glad they're testing! For instance, the detector electronics box which turns analog signals from the CCDs into digital data has more than 22,000 electronic components.
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Mar 15 2009, 12:22 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Planning on incorporating Kepler's mission into two Outreach talks next week, but struggling to find a good all-sky star chart showing which stars have exoplanets. Can anyone help out?
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Mar 15 2009, 04:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1418 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Planning on incorporating Kepler's mission into two Outreach talks next week, but struggling to find a good all-sky star chart showing which stars have exoplanets. Can anyone help out? The closest thing to that I can think of is a script I have in Celestia which marks the positions of known extrasolar planetary systems. But ... Celestia isn't the best tool for making all-sky star charts. I can probably make you an all-sky star chart showing the positions of exoplanets if you give me an hour or so. All I'll need is a blank all-sky atlas. Edit: Found one. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Mar 15 2009, 05:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
Interesting question.
The Exoplanets Forum might be a good place to ask: http://listes.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/wws NASA's Planetquest site has some sort of 3d "New Worlds Atlas" but I can't get it to work in my browser. http://planetquest1.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm The exoplanets encyclopedia has a list of astronomers and groups working in the area. You could consider spamming all of them: http://exoplanet.eu/people.html (Or maybe just the groups -- there are a LOT of individuals!) This table has the raw data (in the format of your choice), so you could plot it yourself, if you wanted to: http://exoplanet.eu/catalog-all.php?mdAff=output#tc And this site claims to be able to do interactive visualizations, although I couldn't see how to do more than query their database. You could ask, though: http://nsted.ipac.caltech.edu/NStED/docs/holdings.html Probably that's not better than what you found in your own web search, but I hope it helps. --Greg |
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Mar 16 2009, 12:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1418 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
I looked at the 3d worlds atlas at the Planet Quest site, and I discovered that it could not produce what was needed. It shows a 3d model of the solar neighborhood. Only stars with planets are included though.
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Mar 16 2009, 06:04 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
Early release version of the Kepler realtime simulation is now online at http://www.dmuller.net/kepler
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Mar 16 2009, 10:17 AM
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Interesting to find out where & when the Kepler Space Observatory will be "visible" from Your location:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi enter: Kepler (Spacecraft) as Target Body and You'll find out the spacecraft is in constellation LEO MINOR |
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Mar 16 2009, 10:24 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
If you guys have any question regarding the mission Jon Jenkins, one of the Co-Investigators, will be happy to answer it at Beyond the Cradle until March 26.
Here's the link. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 17 2009, 08:37 AM
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Mar 20 2009, 06:44 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
re. an all sky map of exoplanet locations...
What an idiot I am! The answer was obvious and staring me in the face - Google Sky! I found a great website that has, among other things, a layer showing the locations of exoplanets ( http://stellarcartography.blogspot.com/200...ogle-earth.html ) and it works perfectly! Well, I say "perfectly"... actually my computer is so old that it struggles with GoogleAnything; the video card is so prehistoric that it is no longer supported by its manufacturer, and the display of Google Mars/Earth/Sky freezes after a few minutes. So I'm "mapping" the exoplanet sky a few small chunks at a time, building up an atlas which will be really useful. A new computer is planned for later this year, then I'll be able to enjoy strolling around Mars like other people here. -------------------- |
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Mar 20 2009, 11:01 AM
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Thanks for pointing out this blog Stu
Hope You'll have a new computer very soon... |
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