Showing posts with label exoplanet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exoplanet. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Bigger Isn't Always Better.

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If you read the post below or the JPL press release on the exoplanets photographed with the Hale Telescope you may have been wondering wh...
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Exoplanets Imaged with Hale Telescope

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From the JPL Press Release : Small, Ground-Based Telescope Images Three Exoplanets April 14, 2010 PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have snapp...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

New Exoplanets

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Yesterday at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Association the team from the Kepler mission announced the discovery of five n...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

This and That

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Palomar Observatory is now back on its regular winter hours and open to visitors 9 am - 3 pm daily. Astrobiology Magazine has named the dis...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

A Companion for Alcor

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The Big Dipper, isn't a constellation (technically it is an asterism), but it is one of the most famous groups of stars in the sky. Nes...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Goodbye to Sleuth

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From 2003 - 2007 the tiny, robotic 4-inch sleuth telescope spent its nights at Palomar Observatory hunting down exoplanets. The telescope wa...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Still Inovating After All These Years

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SPIE was at Palomar a couple of weeks ago to conduct some interviews. The first one, Palomar's 200-inch telescope: still innovating af...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Palomar Planet VB10b makes APOD & Dedication Day!

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You saw it here first, but VB10b, the latest exoplanet discovered at Palomar Observatory, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day . Be...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Exoplanet in the News

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Our announcement last week of the new exoplanet discovery has gotten pretty good press with coverage from Scientific American , National Ge...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

A New Exoplanet from an Old Technique

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Back when I was a kid space exploration was flying high, astronauts were on the Moon, there were big plans for orbital cities and an astrono...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Kepler Catches TRES-2

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You remember TRES-2 , don't you? Just take a good look at the star known as GSC 03549-02811 and you can't miss it. That's becaus...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Exoplanet Hunter to be Honored

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Last week the National Science Foundation announced that former Caltech astronomer David Charbonneau will be awarded the Alan T. Waterman Aw...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sci Fi Science on TV

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Look for Palomar Observatory on Sci Fi Science on Science Channel. If I recall correctly the topic of exoplanets will be discussed and you ...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Project 1640: installed

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You may remember my New Instrument. New Planets? post from late June. Well, the time has finally come for Project 1640 to get installed o...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

New Instrument. New Planets?

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Project 1640 , a new instrument for the Hale Telescope has arrived. With this new instrument astronomers hope to actually photograph exopla...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Good Planets are Hard to Find

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TEDI, the TripleSpec - Exoplanet Discovery Instrument saw "first light" on the 200-inch Hale Telescope last night. The Hale i...