The EPSC-DPS 2025 Joint Meeting, a collaboration between the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) and the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), will take place from 7–12 September 2025 at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland. This marks the 57th Annual DPS Meeting and brings together planetary scientists, mission specialists, and students from around the […]
Exoplanet observations from the Taurus Hill Observatory for three consecutive nights, 4 – 6 September 2024. Candidates TOI-1454.01b, TOI-1845.01b and TOI-6316.01b discovered by the TESS satellite as targets. Light curves credit: TRESCA
The first exoplanet transit light curve of the observation season was taken from TOI-6034.01b. The brightness of the measured exoplanets “mother” star is 15.2 magnitude, i.e. rather dim. The darkness in Finland was just right for measuring the light curve. According to the measurement, the overpass lasted 95.0 min (vs. expected value 95.3 min) and […]
In 2024, it will be exactly 20 years since Taurus Hill Observatory began its full-scale operations. Taurus Hill Observatory got a new rough and shiny dome just before Christmas 2003, and after the turn of the year, the main telescope, the 12-inch Meade still serving Kassiopeia, was installed in the tower. This jubilee year is […]
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks photographed with Taurus Hill Observatory’s Meade16″ACF telescope and SBIG STT-8300M camera without filter. Photo was taken 12 February 2024 at 18:45 Finnish time. Image stacked from a 10 x 120 s image.
Observation of the transit of the exoplanet from the night between Saturday and Sunday (September 9 – 10, 2023). The target was Kepler-718b in the constellation of Cygnus. The target was quite dim for the Taurus Hill Observatory’s equipment, only 15.2 mag. That’s why the exposure was 150 s long and few observation points were […]
HAT-P-61b exoplanet transit observation. The observed values differ quite a lot from the catalog values: the duration of the transit was 85 min (vs. 100 min) and the dimming was 17.3 mmag (vs. 10.4 mmag). The focus was done poorly and maybe the choice of reference stars was not quite right. This object has been […]
The first exoplanet transit observation of the new observation season at Taurus Hill Observatory on August 20 – 21, 2023. Now, towards the end of August, the night sky is already dark long enough for the entire transit to be observed. At night, the target was the transit of the exoplanet WTS-2b in the constellation […]
A few meteors, possibly belonging to the Perseids, were captured by THO’s allsky camera. These meteors must have been fireballs in brightness to leave the old visible in the allsky camera image. The sky was still quite bright and the protective dome of the camera is a little dirty from the summer. The sky was […]
Clear nights this fall have been quite rare. At the Taurus Hill Observatory, transit observations of exoplanets were made in October on two nights between Sunday and Monday, October 23-24. and 30 – 31.10. The target objects were Qatar-4b, WASP-12b, K2-30b and HAT-P-52b. Photos: credit Tresca ETD.
