Re: David Charbonneau to talk at Fermilab

["Gary W. Billings"<obs681@telusplanet.net>]

Alas, I can't make it (it's probably a 5 hour airplane ride from here) but I've
heard David Charbonneau speak:  he's doing hot science with a tiny scope (albeit
with a fulltime support person, and HST photometry as followup!), and he's an
excellent speaker.

As I recall, the first observed planetary transit (of HD 209458) was observed
with the STARE scope.

Enjoy,   

Gary Billings

>David Charbonneau whose name is on all the papers about detection of 
>planets using photometry is to talk at Fermilab on 24 April.  I think he is

>going to talk on detection of planetary atmospheres.  He seems to also be 

>working on something called STARE which uses a 286 mm f/2.9 telescope with

>a 2k x 2k CCD.  Not all that different from a Mark IV.
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>If any of you want to show up, I will worry about how to get you into 
>Fermilab.  Not easy these days.
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>Tom Droege  
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