{"id":110,"date":"2022-02-28T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T03:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:11:57","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/mba-long-mountain-observatory\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The observatory has been used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotastro.com\/Exoplanets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirm several exoplanets<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/keltsurvey.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/keltsurvey.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KELT<\/a> exoplanet transit search program and has been accepted as a member of NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tess.mit.edu\/followup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TESS Follow-up Observing Program.<\/a>  In addition to filters used for visible wavelength imaging, the observatory&#8217;s ZWO ASI6200MM Pro full frame CMOS camera has Sloan Digital Sky Survey filters g&#8217; r&#8217; i&#8217; z&#8217; for photometric use.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" src=\"http:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4040_filter_overlays-1024x741.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4040_filter_overlays-1024x741.png 1024w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4040_filter_overlays-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4040_filter_overlays-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4040_filter_overlays-1568x1135.png 1568w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4040_filter_overlays.png 2034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Imaging and photometric filters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated-1024x295.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated-1024x295.png 1024w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated-768x221.png 768w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated-1536x442.png 1536w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated-1568x452.png 1568w, https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/M101_SN_PTF11kly_7_2010_8_26-and-9_9_2011-Annotated.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Palomar Transient Factory project detected on August 24, 2011 a supernova in M101, initially designated as PTF11kly, later SN 2011fe. This series of images shows M101 before and during the event. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/04qo52\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/04qo52\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Astrobin link with image details.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The observatory has been used to confirm several exoplanets as part of the KELT exoplanet transit search program and has been accepted as a member of NASA&#8217;s TESS Follow-up Observing Program. In addition to filters used for visible wavelength imaging, the observatory&#8217;s ZWO ASI6200MM Pro full frame CMOS camera has Sloan Digital Sky Survey filters &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/mba-long-mountain-observatory\/science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotastro.com\/MBAobservatory\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}