Patrick Sekyra & Björn Sievers Due to the lab course “Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum” at TU Darmstadt we had the opportunity to use the universities remote observatory TURMX. One object – ZTF J065743.32+233712.8 – was chosen by us to observe in the night of the 13th of February in 2021, while the other […]
FP Photometry
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Michelle Müller & Christoph Rützel In the context of the advanced lab courses (Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum) we observed a star of our choice throughout one night. The chosen star’s name is ZTF J000116.54+543024.7, it is located within the Cassiopeia constellation. In photometric examinations it is often more convenient to observe the relative […]
Marietta Coelle and Yannik Atzbach We planned our observation under very unfavourable conditions: Not only we had to deal with full moon and decided to observe an exoplanet transit, which restricts the possible observations to a few time windows, but also the hourly changing weather forecast predicted heavy clouds and […]
Patrick Falk & Clemens Nickel During the photometry experiment we could observe the brightness variation caused by the exoplanet CoRoT-18b and the variable star RV Ari of the Aries-constellation in the night of the 9th and 10th of November 2020. We were also given the data of another exoplanet Qatar-4b […]
Julian Schulze & Aleksandar Vučković In the context of the physics lab course ”Photometry in Astrophysics”, we studied the variable star BN Tri, a part of the constallation Triangalum located in the northern sky. A variable star is a star whose brightness changes over time, in contrast with the usual […]
Thierry Kaldenbach & Carl Georg Boos Thanks to the Fortgeschrittenen Praktikum we were able to oberserve variable stars through a night. The chosen star NP-Lyn is located in the Lynx constellation. The observation was done the night of the 20th January, 2020. Due to many clouds the telescope shut down […]
Lisa Wagner & Cedric Wenz Photometry in astrophysics is a means to evaluating the brightness of an astronomical object, which is measured in the historical unit magnitude. Since it is much easier to measure a differential rather than an absolute brightness, the observed object is often compared to stars that […]
Gerrit Leck & Jan Kuske On November 18th 2019 we were the first group of students to conduct the new FP-experiment “Photometry in Astrophysics”. We observed several variable stars and exoplanet transits using differential photometry. Here we present extracts of our results. In the night from 23rd to 24th November […]