Exoplanets: Observing by Amateurs

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Apr 2003

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5494. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Amateur Astronomy, Education And Public Impact

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It is really surprising that astronomers or even amateur astronomers can detect planets circling faraway stars, but it is possible and about 100 EXOPLANETS have been found. The professional astronomers are using the world's largest telescopes with high-end spectrographs to detect the minute tell-tale radial speed variations caused by planets, but another way of observing exoplanets, photometry, is...

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