Jan 8, 20154 minA Recipe for Making a K2 Light CurveToday we have a post by Andrew Vanderburg. Andrew is a graduate student at Harvard University who works on producing and correcting K2...
Dec 12, 20143 minMore About the K2 Campaign 0Now that were in the midst of the showing the first batch of science grade data from the K2 mission, I thought I’d give some more...
Dec 9, 20142 minJust out! New data from the Kepler mission:We are showing light curves from the Kepler 2-wheel mission for Campaign 0 (a.k.a. “K2 C-0”) now and wanted to explain some issues that...
Dec 8, 20141 minKepler 2.0It’s up! The first science data from the new Kepler K2 mission is up on Planet Hunters just waiting to be looked at for new planets,...
Nov 18, 20143 minBlurry Eyes and Stellar Contamination in the Kepler Light curvesThe light curves you see on Planet Hunters are not always the light of a single star. Kepler has very very precise but blurry vision. The...
Nov 4, 20142 minSuggested Talk HashtagsAs part of the new Planet Hunters classification interface, the Summary page (see below) suggests some hashtags you could use to label...