Astromar

Exoplanet Transit Detection from Garden Photometry

Idea

Testing whether repeated exposures of a known exoplanet host star can reveal a transit dip in brightness.

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The most ambitious of the three. Idea is differential photometry: image a known transiting-exoplanet host star continuously through a predicted transit window, measure its brightness against comparison stars in the same frame, and see if a dip actually shows up in the light curve from a back garden.

Realistically limited by the Seestar's aperture and the UK's weather, so a bright, well-studied target (something like a hot Jupiter host) is the likely starting point rather than anything faint.