Multi chpater ExoSolar Planets Project?

[Skulled]

Hi,
I think getting SEDS chapters around the world involved in International Projects is very important. As neubjr pointed out in the other thread and the Lunar Project thread.

I had this idea on starting a multi-chapter project on ExoSolar Planets. I just wanted to see how many of you guys are interested in something of that sort?

If there are many interested chapters it would be great. SO if you are interested send me an email (v.devanathan@iu-bremen.de) and any suggestions post them up here. Once we have enough people involved, we can get going.

Think about it ...

have a nice weekend everyone.

[neubjr]

I'm sure that some people here at MIT would be interested. And of course I do want to get some multi-chapter project going. It will help a lot for SEDS in general.

Do you have any details on the exosolar planet project? I don't see much to do with it other than try to discover some ourselves. Is that what you were talking about?

-Joshua.

[JediJosh]

Actually I am trying to get UA-SEDS involved in Transit Search program... Looking for the transits of hot jupiters.

Once we get our new telescope up and running, should be a nice project to put it to use.

[Cadrock]

Sounds interesting... of course looking for extra-solar planets is one thing. Multiple small telescopes spread throughout a wide area do have better resolution then one large telescope. We could set up multiple computer controlled telescopes at each university, attach CCD cameras and network them all together.

Another idea is too participate in the search for near earth asteriods.

or possible

We could listen for planets or try to contact them ourselves. You could set up a whole hell of alot of small antennas, colate the data and send it to SETI. The other is point a bunch of antennas in the same direction, and send one big pulse of radio energy out holding a basic mathematical greeting