Wasp6b

Wasp6b:
The running average magnitude of star Wasp6 observed on December 5th, 2016 (Julian day 2457362). The transit of exoplanet Wasp6b caused a magnitude change of 0.0267 ± 0.0028, which is a 13% difference from the Exoplanet Transit Database. Observation of this exoplanet transit began halfway through and therefore only the end of the transit is shown in the graph above.

Right Ascension: 23h 12m 37s
Declination: -22° 40' 26"
Apparent Magnitude: 12.84

Date: December 2015
Equipment:
Telescope: Meade 16" Schmidt Cassegrain with f6.3 reducer
Camera: SBIG ST-10XE
Guiding: Meade 5" refractor; Starshoot Autoguider; PHD

Exposure: 60 s Clear filter


Processing Notes:
Dark Subtraction and Flat Field reduction and alignment in CCDStack. Aperture and Annulus counts in AIP4WIN. Excel used to calculate magnitude and errors. Matlab for graphing.


Scale: 1.04"/pixel

Links to images of this object on other sites:
http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/etd.php?STARNAME=WASP-6&PLANET=b

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