HAT-P-12b - A transiting "Hot Saturn" in CVn

Dear group ... and Oriel,

A couple of weeks ago we had the announcement surrounding the
discovery of the twelveth exoplanet by the HAT-P-Net exoplanet hunting
team and involving the third find and example to-date of a "Hot
Saturn".

This particular find involves a star which is somewhat dim at
magnitude 12.84 (pretransit) and which dims to 12.865 during transit.
In spite of many false starts due to very dim sporadic clouds which
almost made me call it in, I managed to capture a very beautiful light
curve over the course of four hours.

The exoplanet HAT-P-12b in the constellation of Canis Venatici
completely orbits its parent star in only 77 hours and requires 140
minutes to transit it as viewed from Earth.

Aside from being the least dense of any massive gas giant exoplanet
discovered so far, it is even less dense than Saturn itself.

For the resulting light-curve from last night based on 4 hours total
data, please see http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photomet...2-20090513.htm
..

Anthony.

Anthony Ayiomamitis:

Dear group ... and Oriel

The work is beautiful, and the above is _funny_ ! And coincidental,
because Oriel is himself egressing from a transit of a distant star at
the moment, and is about to go into eclipse.

A couple of weeks ago we had the announcement surrounding the
discovery of the twelveth exoplanet by the HAT-P-Net exoplanet hunting
team and involving the third find and example to-date of a "Hot
Saturn".

This particular find involves a star which is somewhat dim at
magnitude 12.84 (pretransit) and which dims to 12.865 during transit.
In spite of many false starts due to very dim sporadic clouds which
almost made me call it in, I managed to capture a very beautiful light
curve over the course of four hours.

The exoplanet HAT-P-12b in the constellation of Canis Venatici
completely orbits its parent star in only 77 hours and requires 140
minutes to transit it as viewed from Earth.

Aside from being the least dense of any massive gas giant exoplanet
discovered so far, it is even less dense than Saturn itself.

For the resulting light-curve from last night based on 4 hours total
data, please see http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photomet...2-20090513.htm
.

Anthony.

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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

On May 14, 3:22*pm, Davoud wrote:
Anthony Ayiomamitis:

Dear group ... and Oriel

The work is beautiful, and the above is _funny_ ! And coincidental,
because Oriel is himself egressing from a transit of a distant star at
the moment, and is about to go into eclipse.





A couple of weeks ago we had the announcement surrounding the
discovery of the twelveth exoplanet by the HAT-P-Net exoplanet hunting
team and involving the third find and example to-date of a "Hot
Saturn".

This particular find involves a star which is somewhat dim at
magnitude 12.84 (pretransit) and which dims to 12.865 during transit.
In spite of many false starts due to very dim sporadic clouds which
almost made me call it in, I managed to capture a very beautiful light
curve over the course of four hours.

The exoplanet HAT-P-12b in the constellation of Canis Venatici
completely orbits its parent star in only 77 hours and requires 140
minutes to transit it as viewed from Earth.

Aside from being the least dense of any massive gas giant exoplanet
discovered so far, it is even less dense than Saturn itself.

For the resulting light-curve from last night based on 4 hours total
data, please seehttp://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photometry-HAT-P-12-20090513.htm
.

Anthony.

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I am not even a dynamicist but I can instruct these guys in matters
that intersect with my investigations.As for Anthony,he can drop
references to me,anyone that has no self respect doesn't need comment
from me but you can give him this so that you and he can participate
in Martin's 10 minute astrological challenge -

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

As for this recent explosion in exo-planet business,it is a
distraction from the isolation of Formalhaut system where an observed
planet in an orbit around the central star provides a real opportunity
for dynamicists,not that scam of exoplanets based on perceived
wobble,dimming and the usual junk of the blob at the end of the
universe or things which cannot be challenged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xlarge_web.jpg

In 1990 I was working on the geometry of natural efficiency with
special emphasis on stellar evolution where ratios in volume and
density change ,the geometry being two large external rings with a
smaller internal ring with the provisional working principle that the
higher elements originate in the progenitor star. in short,rather than
a single stage evolutionary process where a supernova represents a
demise,a supernova may actually be an evolutionary stellar stage.In
other words,the elements in your body and on this Earth originate from
the progenitor star - our own Sun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN1987A

Those images of the rings were not observed until 1994 hence the
private satisfaction and now,a private work.It is a private work
because the reasoning of cosmological evolutionists do not rise above
celestial sphere architecture and miss these amazing clues such as the
Formalhaut system,Eta Carinae,the Kuiper belt,SN 1987a as a hint of
something more exciting.So far,dynamicists still haven't got around to
determining that galactic rotation must be present before stellar
evolution.