Planet Hunters Talk

Hobby for Mom and Son: Examples of Transits

  • mlmoreno by mlmoreno

    Hi,
    I’ve recently started a profile on Planet hunters with my son because he’s very interested in Astronomy. However the tutorials are not the best because each chart is different, could anyone lead us in the right direction to see what transits look like on various types of stars. We’ve read the entire site and went thru the example photos but it doesn’t really have a descriptive way to learn. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • davidbundy77 by davidbundy77

    I have a couple of collections with (in my opinion) good examples of transits:

    http://talk.planethunters.org/#/collections/CPHS00027n

    http://talk.planethunters.org/#/collections/CPHS0003dl

    I think all of these candidates have been discussed by experienced users on the threads C2 K2 finds and C4 K2 finds so there is a good chance that many of them are planets.

    I hope that gives you a better idea of what we are looking for.

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  • mlmoreno by mlmoreno in response to davidbundy77's comment.

    Hi David,

    Thank you so much for that, it definitely helps. Would you happen to have any that would show transits that may be missed as well. We have been doing it wrong.

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  • mlmoreno by mlmoreno in response to davidbundy77's comment.

    Also I noticed on the bottom of the chart, there’s no much info, I’m a little confused when I see people hashtag quarters could you please explain that to me too. Thank you again for all your help!

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  • davidbundy77 by davidbundy77 in response to mlmoreno's comment.

    I am not sure which chart you mean.

    Users are encouraged to type hashtags according to the examples listed here http://blog.planethunters.org/?s=hashtag . There is however a great deal of confusion about these hashtags and lots of users' guesses are simply wrong. If you find the hashtags confusing, then simply ignore them and concentrate on marking transits like the examples I showed above.

    Genuine transiting planets are actually fairly rare and are easily confused with all sorts of other features such as: various kinds of glitches, contamination from other light sources, starspots, pulsations, variations due to rotation, eclipsing binaries etc. Don't worry too much about getting it right or wrong. The scientists compare the classifications of many users in order to find the best candidates and then perform a long list of checks to eliminate any other possible explanations before a discovery is confirmed.

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  • Cluis by Cluis in response to davidbundy77's comment.

    Hello there! The link you posted to examples should definitely be illustrated in the section below the work area. I had to search quite diligently to find this comment, which has this link. I came across a weird looking star, and had no idea what to tag it if I was so inclined.

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