New Exoplanets Just Dropped! And Citizen Scientists Helped Find Them

[@zapfanzapfan]

Fantastic project showing the usefulness of even relatively small telescopes when they work together across the world. Is the Unistellar-network used for Kuiper object occultations too? Good method for constraining the size of objects and find out if they have atmospheres or rings.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Hey, finding eclipsing binaries can be cool too! 🙂

[@robertlautenslager9832]

There are millions of "amateur" astronomers with better instrumentation than the Unistellar (which is just one small fraction of the revolutions that has taken place in amateur astronomy in the past decade) why not reach out to the broader community?

[@saltyassassin]

Agreed! There's a guy from Austria out there taking images of "Top Secret" satellites with nothing more than his 14" Dobsonian telescope! We have serious talent out here! Maybe we should start our own parallel organization of Citizen Scientists.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Since they are well characterized and are all the same I guess it makes it a lot easier to compare data from different telescopes.

[@SETIInstitute]

@@zapfanzapfan that's correct.

[@nivlheim73]

without the limitation of money (that we smart humans made our selves) we would have been limitless if working together in this world. would have improved science for sure (climate change n all)