Published on December 7th, 2012 | by Scott

World’s First Live Exoplanet Transit Observation

“To celebrate #deSTEMber  a star will wink at you from the other side of the universe. In a world first we are going to bring a live exo-planet transit (weather permitting) to a Google Plus Hangout.
If we are successful we’ll just have to have another go at the earliest opportunity.

In support of #deSTEMber +girlstart and +google science fair, we’ll spend 2 hours talking about exo-planets, whilst operating a 0.5m telescope remotely and updating the data as we go. This is real science live in action.

The LIVE STREAM Link will be posted below at about the start time which will be:

US MST 7th Dec 7pm, East Coast US EST 9PM, West Coast PST 6pm, UTC 8th Dec 2am (sorry europe) and Australia 8th Dec, 1PM”

Results:

Tags: Astronomy, Australia, deSTEMber, europe, ExoPlanet, Google Plus Hangout, Google+, Hangouts On Air, itelescope.net, Peter Lake, Photometry, Qatar-1b, Scott Lewis, Transit, UTC

About the Author

Scott Scott Lewis is the creator of Know The Cosmos. Scott is also the host of the Virtual Star Party on Google+ & YouTube and has hosted shows for Science Sunday. He thrives on engaging with the public on topics of science (especially astronomy and physics), skepticism, technology, curiosity, education, and equal rights.

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