exoplanets for amateurs

Hi

I would like to know if there was a possibility as students to participate in search of exoplanets

Are there projects to which it is possible to adhere?

What equipment needs him to have?

I had heard about a programme of monitorings of transits by students in dissertation. Can I have information about this?

I ask the same questions on the research of discs of dusts and brown dwarfs

Thanks

There is Systemic, which allows anyone to browse through radial velocity data and detect planets. Fits to the data may be uploaded to the "backend".

http://oklo.org/downloadable-console/
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3

This requires no equipment of special knowledge (aside from how to work the programme of course, which are what the tutorials are for).


If you have a telescope (preferably with an objective diameter above 5 in or so) and a CCD (charged coupled device, they measure light intensity, they're in your scanners, digital cameras, etc), then you can detect a few of the bright transiting planets (HD 209458 b, HD 189733 b are examples). The better the telescope, the more you can detect.

Here's a pdf that deals with detect transiting planets for ametures.
http://brucegary.net/book_EOA/EOA.pdf