HATNet
HATNet (The Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network) is a network of six small (11cm diameter), wide-field (8x8 deg), fully-automated "HAT" telescopes. The scientific goal of the project is to detect and characterize extrasolar planets (exoplanets; those outside the Solar System), and also to find and follow bright variable stars. The network is maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. There are two main stations: the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) site of SAO atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Note that we provide ~3,000 photometric light-curves of K and M dwarf stars showing photometric variability (Hartman et al. 2009).
The search interface for HATNet is under progress and will be available soon.
Last Updated at: 2009-07-25 09:35 AM.