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Old June 17th 08, 11:49 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Anthony Ayiomamitis[_3_]
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Default Exoplanet WASP-3b in Lyra

Thanks to everyone for the kind words. I have a lot of planned work
for the latter part of June and there will be lots more results to
share with everyone.

With respect to the friend asking about depth, it is the amount by
which the magnitude of the host star drops when the exoplanet is
transitting its disk and thereby blocking some of the light. For
example, a depth of "12 mmag" means that the magnitude of the parent
star will drop by 0.012 magnitudes during transit (ex. from 10.000 to
10.012).

I have captured eight exoplanets so far with depths varying from 6.2
mmag (ie. 0.0062 magnitudes) to 33 mmag (0.033 magnitudes) and which
you can see at http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photometry.htm ... I should
have 20 total exoplanets in the bag by the end of July.

Clear skies to everyone!

Anthony.

On 17 Ιούν, 11:28, "Vossinakis Andreas"
wrote:
Well done Anthony, very nice photometry

Andreas Vossinakis