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Date + Time ................................
28/08/2016 - 19:15UTC / 01:20 UTC
Location ....................................
"Nunki Observatory" - Skiathos
Optics .........................................
Officina Stellare Advanced RILA 400 f/5.25
Tools .......................................... THE SKY
X
Camera ......................................
SBIG
STXL11002 with FW8G-STXL (Astrodon
filters)
Exposure Time......................... Red: 255 X 60 Sec
Mount ....................................... Paramount
ME
Guiding .................................... Unguided
Processing Details .................. Maxim ,The Sky X ,
Ccdautopilot 5
More Details ...........................
Environment Temperature : 23 oC Camera Temperature -30 οC
Sky temperature ..................... 3.5. οC
Notes ........................................ Weather:
Clear Transparence:
Medium
Humidity : 50-65 %
Moon Illumination ............... 98.12%
Amateur astronomers on duty : Nikolaos I. Paschalis
Analysing data & analysing software : Angelos Tsiaras
- Natasa Kokori
COROT-2b (formerly known as COROT-Exo-2b) is the second
extrasolar planet to be detected by the French-led COROT mission,
and orbits the star COROT-2 at a distance of 930 light years
from Earth towards the constellation Aquila. Its discovery was
announced on 20 December 2007. After its discovery via the transit
method, its mass was confirmed via the radial velocity method.
The planet is a large hot Jupiter, about 1.43 times the radius of
Jupiter and approximately 3.3 times as massive. Its huge size is due
to the intense heating from its parent star, which causes the outer
layers of its atmosphere to bloat. The extremely large radius of the
planet indicates that COROT-2b is very hot, estimated to be around
1500 K, even hotter than would be expected given its location close
to its parent star. This fact may be a sign of tidal heating due to
interactions with another planet. At Jupiter-like distances its
radius would roughly be the same as Jupiter.The complete phase curve
of this planet has been observed.
COROT-2b orbits its star approximately once every 1.7 days, and
orbits the star in a prograde direction close to the star's equator.
Its parent star is a G-type star, a bit cooler than the Sun but more
active. It is located about 800 light-years from Earth.
It takes 125 minutes to transit its star.
As of August 2008, the COROT-2b spin-orbit angle (that is, the angle
between the equator of the star and the plane of the planet orbit)
was calculated by Bouchy et al. by means of the Rossiter–McLaughlin
effect with a value of +7.2 ± 4.5 degrees.
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