{"id":303,"date":"2013-01-30T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2013-01-30T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T06:11:07","slug":"amateur-astronomers-discovering-a-multi-planet-system-awards-for-comet-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Amateur astronomers: Discovering a multi-planet system + Awards for comet discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Some news of amateur astronomy accomplishments:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a story about amateur astronomers using the sophisticated technique of microlensing to\u00a0 discover a multiple-planet system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/news\/Amateurs-Help-Discover-Second-Multiple-Planet-System-188844821.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amateurs Help Discover Multi-Planet System &#8211; SkyandTelescope.com <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu\/%7Emicrofun\/info.html\" target=\"_d\">MicroFUN &#8211; Information for Prospective Collaborators<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics award a total purse of $30,000 to amateur astronomers who discovered comets in 2012:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/01\/amateur-astronomers-comets\/\" target=\"_d\">Amateur Astronomers Win Cash for Comet Discoveries &#8211; Wired Science\/Wired.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/news\/2013\/pr201304.html\" target=\"_d\">2012 Comet Awards Announced &#8211; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly all comet discoveries nowadays are made by automated telescopes which scan the skies with robotic eyes and check new appearances in a computer. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu\/special\/EdgarWilson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Edgar\u00a0Wilson Award<\/a> celebrates the few lone amateurs that still practice the old ways of comet watching, scanning the skies during freezing cold nights to get that once-in-a-lifetime finding. Spotting comets is very competitive because the first person to report it gets the honor of having the comet named for him or herself.<\/p>\n<p>The five winners this year all made their discoveries in 2011. For most of the recipients, it is their first time winning. The prize money was split evenly among the discoveries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some news of amateur astronomy accomplishments: Here is a story about amateur astronomers using the sophisticated technique of microlensing to\u00a0 discover a multiple-planet system. Amateurs Help Discover Multi-Planet System &#8211; SkyandTelescope.com MicroFUN &#8211; Information for Prospective Collaborators === The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics award a total purse of $30,000 to amateur astronomers who discovered comets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amateur astronomers: Discovering a multi-planet system + Awards for comet discoveries<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":522,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=522","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":0},"title":"Five amateur astronomers honored for comet finding","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sky and Telescope reports on five amateur astronomers being recognized for their comet discoveries: Five Amateurs Share Edgar Wilson Award: Discovering a comet remains one of amateur astronomy's greatest accomplishments, and five individuals are being honored for doing just that. - SkyandTelescope.com Recently five amateurs were honored with the 2012\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":471,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=471","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":1},"title":"Earth-like exoplanets all around us","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Earth-sized exoplanets in the habitable zones of their stars may not only be common but relatively close by: Earth-like Planets Are Right Next Door - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics\u00a0 Cambridge, MA - Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"lores[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lores1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5020,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5020","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":2},"title":"Amateur astronomers see a comet &#8220;explode&#8221; in brightness","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"SpaceWeather.com\u00a0reports that amateur astronomers have observed a \"comet explosion\": Almost 450 million km from Earth, Comet C\/2012 X1 (LINEAR) has exploded. 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