Astronomical Targets
Lowell Observatory Project - FTN & FTS - minor planets
As part of a collaborative project with the Lowell Observatory (see news article here), we are asking schools to take images of Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects so that their positions and orbits can be refined.
Swift J1753.5-0127 - black hole system
Users are asked to help take images of an interesting and energetic black hole binary system in coming weeks. In a series of observations co-ordinated by postgraduate student Aarran Shaw at the University of Southampton, they hope to understand more about the strange behaviour of this exotic object.
GJ 1214 - An exoplanet system
Scientists at the University of Colorado have asked the FT Team and FT
users to help in a study to improve the understanding of exoplanets.
They are particularly interested in the study of these objects around
cool M-type stars and have secured the use of the Hubble Space Telescope
to image these stars.
GJ 317 - an exoplanet system
Scientists at the University of Colorado have asked the FT Team and FT users to help in a study to improve the understanding of exoplanets. They are particularly interested in the study of these objects around cool M-type stars and have secured the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to image these stars.
