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How to find a planet?

How to find a planet?

An introductory talk on NASA's Kepler and K2 missions, presented in August 2017.

Geert Barentsen

August 01, 2017
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  1. How to find
 a planet? (Not what the actual data

    look like) @GeertHub www.geert.io
 github.com/barentsen
 Geert Barentsen
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  3. * •need to look at the right place • at

    the right time •and measure the brightness of stars • with extreme accuracy
  4. * Kepler was launched on 6 March 2009 Attached to

    a big telescope 100 megapixel camera (100 deg2)
 Makes movies of stars! The Kepler Spacecraft
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