HAT-P12-b captured on the night of June 15, 2010, from the UFObservatory, Portugal, under a Full Moon and hazy skies.

This capture was the first real test of the complete robotic system that’s been under construction and has just become operational at UFObservatory, a robotic multi-pier observatory. The session was done remotely (but just for a few dozen meters) by me and my friend João Gregório, that happens to be the first amateur to produce a light curve for this exoplanet. Another friend was capturing pretty pictures from his living room, more than 100Km away.

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Celestron C8 and Alan Gee Telecompressor + QSI 504
William Optics ZenithStar 66mm + Atik 16IC
Losmandy G11 Gemini

On the corner of Rossio with Rua do Ouro, March 10th 2010

Based on minimalist “headless” theme by Ozan Onay.

The main reason behind this restyling was to make the site easier to read, with dark text on white background, and at the same time to make it standards compliant. I had to tweak a javascript snippet, and modify all the flash objects included on the posts, but with some help it wasn’t a big deal.