Exploring the binar star KIC 9832227

Here are the blog posts, in order:

The Adoption
The Initial Observing Plan
First Observing Session
The Morning After
Finding the Science
Planning Observing Run #2
The Morning After Session #2
Observing Session #3
Session 4: The First Lightcurve
Session 5: First Timing Measurement
Sessions 6 & 7: Break of Dawn
Clocks and Time Zones
Speedup, Slowdown, or Steady As She Goes?

Speedup, Slowdown, or Steady As She Goes?

We now have enough data to make a plot showing how the period of KIC 9832227 has (or has not) been changing since we started observing at the end of November. And that plot looks like this: In this graph, the horizontal x-axis is time (the date), and the vertical axis is the orbital period…

by markinri January 16, 2020

Clocks and Time Zones

Waiting for some more bad weather to clear, so let’s talk about time … There are a handful of different time zones that are relevant to this project: Local Time: Right now, local time for me is Eastern Standard Time. This is the time zone that I use for planning telescope observations. I can easily…

by markinri January 12, 2020

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