This is the  second half of  part 4 of my  Keck NIRC2 observing log. (See Part 1 and Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4a). The night you’re...

Astronomers at Keck have it easy – whereas I used to slog up to the summit of Mauna Kea*, dealing with the lack of oxygen up there in...

Airmass plot of some of the targets I’m planning on observing tonight It’s a few minutes before sunset. I’ve gotten the “keys” to Keck 2,...

This is part 3 of my  Keck NIRC2 observing log. (See Part 1 and Part 2). So I can’t sleep, so I decided to go take some photos of where...

Greetings from Hawaii. I’m here for observing on the Keck telescopes. It’s 5:45am in Hawaii, and the Sun has just risen. I’m sitting here...

The Kepler field will be high in the sky starting in the next month or so and continuing over the Summer months. Thanks to all of your...

Keck II telescope – Image Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory The Keck Observatory observing schedule was released online over the weekend....

Image Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory To study and follow-up planet candidates we find with Planet Hunters we need telescope time. Nights...

Today we have a guest post from Bill Keel. Bill is a member of the science team for Galaxy Zoo, and is more accustomed to dealing with...

The Kepler field is located in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. You can find the Kepler field by looking for the Summer Triangle, the...

Hi, I wanted to give a brief update on the short period planets paper that just recently got accepted to Astrophysical Journal. Once...

Today’s blog post come’s from guest blogger Justin Crepp, co-author on our first Planet Hunters paper. Justin is an expert in adaptive...

Today’s blog post is brought to you by zookeeper extraordinaire Chris Lintott. Last week Meg visited me in Chicago for two days of number...

Hello PlanetHunters! The Kepler field is finally visible and tonight, grad student John Brewer and I began observing a few of the...