{"id":12007,"date":"2016-01-02T02:21:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2016-01-02T02:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T07:21:06","slug":"video-observing-an-exoplanet-transit-with-a-ground-based-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12007","title":{"rendered":"Video: Observing an exoplanet transit with a ground-based telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/space-topics\/exoplanets\/transit-photometry.html\" target=\"_blank\">transit method<\/a>\u00a0works best with space\u00a0telescopes like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kepler_(spacecraft)\" target=\"_blank\">Kepler<\/a> for finding and studying new\u00a0exoplanets, there are some special cases of where large exoplanets that orbit close to its star can be seen by ground based telescopes. Here is an interesting account of such an observation via the site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepskyvideos.com\/videos\/other\/exoplanet_transit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deep Sky Videos &#8211; Videos about the Depths of Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnoCAWCZC7A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0the transit method\u00a0works best with space\u00a0telescopes like Kepler for finding and studying new\u00a0exoplanets, there are some special cases of where large exoplanets that orbit close to its star can be seen by ground based telescopes. Here is an interesting account of such an observation via the site\u00a0Deep Sky Videos &#8211; Videos about the Depths of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Observing an exoplanet transit with a ground-based telescope<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-37F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4393,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4393","url_meta":{"origin":12007,"position":0},"title":"Video: Imaging habitable exoplanets + PANOPTES citizen science exoplanet search","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a very interesting SETI Institute seminar by Olivier Guyon about the possibilities of directly imaging planets in the habitable zones of stars by using coronagraph techniques on telescopes to suppress the glare of the star. 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