BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//astrosociety.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:5ace3671-5ecb-46c2-80b0-c41b75e26815 X-WR-CALDESC:Join the Night Sky Network and Robert Zellem on Thursday\, Feb ruary 23 at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern to learn how to participate in the dis covery of exoplanets.\n\nOn January 10\, 2023\, Exoplanet Watch was announ ced as NASA’s newest citizen science project studying exoplanets\, or plan ets that orbit stars beyond our solar system. The project is growing daily \, and we’re encouraging astronomers who have telescopes with a tracking m ount and a camera to participate in the project by making your own observa tions of exoplanet transits. We’ll show you how\, when\, and where to look ! We’ll also show you how to use our free EXOTIC (Exoplanet Timing Interpr etation Code) software to make your own light curves. If you have more dat a than time to process it\, you can contribute your own observations of tr ansiting exoplanets so that other citizen scientists can make their own li ght curves. Exoplanet Watch participants have studied 275 different exopla nets so far\, and created more than 1\,500 light curves. With your help\, we can expand the reach of the project. We have participants in 24 time zo nes already\, but the more participants we have\, the better. Your work wi ll help make the timing for upcoming James Webb Space Telescope exoplanet observations more precise\, freeing up valuable space telescope time for o ther scientists. If your observations or your light curves are used in a s cientific paper\, you will get credit as a co-author on the paper. We’ll w alk you through our website and how to participate in the project.\n\nAbou t the Guest Speaker:\n\nRob Zellem is an exoplanet astronomer at NASA’s Je t Propulsion Laboratory working on ground- and space-based observations of the atmospheres of exoplanets\, planets outside of our Solar System. He i s the Project Lead of Exoplanet Watch\, a citizen science project that wil l aid in the characterization of exoplanets. Rob is also a member of the N ancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Coronagraph Instrument (CGI\; an instru ment that will directly-image exoplanets) Project Science Team and is the lead of developing its Science Calibration Plan. He is the JPL Commissioni ng Lead of NESSI\, a new multi-object spectrograph at Palomar Observatory that will study tens of these alien worlds. He has been involved in benchm arking the performance through simulations of NASA and ESA exoplanet-dedic ated missions such as CASE\, the NASA contribution to ESA’s ARIEL mission\ , and the Astro2020 missions Origins Space Telescope and HabEx.\n\nThe eve nt will be streaming live on YouTube\, but please note that questions aske d over the NSN-members-only Zoom Q&A will be prioritized. X-WR-RELCALID:711632bd6e041ecdb84644e2ba2fd158 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20231105T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20230312T020000 RDATE:20240310T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8f1a24ef-db34-4070-b7c1-27441cefb520 DTSTAMP:20260425T223740Z DESCRIPTION:Join the Night Sky Network and Robert Zellem on Thursday\, Febr uary 23 at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern to learn how to participate in the disc overy of exoplanets.\n\nOn January 10\, 2023\, Exoplanet Watch was announc ed as NASA’s newest citizen science project studying exoplanets\, or plane ts that orbit stars beyond our solar system. The project is growing daily\ , and we’re encouraging astronomers who have telescopes with a tracking mo unt and a camera to participate in the project by making your own observat ions of exoplanet transits. We’ll show you how\, when\, and where to look! We’ll also show you how to use our free EXOTIC (Exoplanet Timing Interpre tation Code) software to make your own light curves. If you have more data than time to process it\, you can contribute your own observations of tra nsiting exoplanets so that other citizen scientists can make their own lig ht curves. Exoplanet Watch participants have studied 275 different exoplan ets so far\, and created more than 1\,500 light curves. With your help\, w e can expand the reach of the project. We have participants in 24 time zon es already\, but the more participants we have\, the better. Your work wil l help make the timing for upcoming James Webb Space Telescope exoplanet o bservations more precise\, freeing up valuable space telescope time for ot her scientists. If your observations or your light curves are used in a sc ientific paper\, you will get credit as a co-author on the paper. We’ll wa lk you through our website and how to participate in the project.\n\nAbout the Guest Speaker:\n\nRob Zellem is an exoplanet astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on ground- and space-based observations of the atmospheres of exoplanets\, planets outside of our Solar System. He is the Project Lead of Exoplanet Watch\, a citizen science project that will aid in the characterization of exoplanets. Rob is also a member of the Na ncy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Coronagraph Instrument (CGI\; an instrum ent that will directly-image exoplanets) Project Science Team and is the l ead of developing its Science Calibration Plan. He is the JPL Commissionin g Lead of NESSI\, a new multi-object spectrograph at Palomar Observatory t hat will study tens of these alien worlds. He has been involved in benchma rking the performance through simulations of NASA and ESA exoplanet-dedica ted missions such as CASE\, the NASA contribution to ESA’s ARIEL mission\, and the Astro2020 missions Origins Space Telescope and HabEx.\n\nThe even t will be streaming live on YouTube\, but please note that questions asked over the NSN-members-only Zoom Q&A will be prioritized. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T190000 LOCATION:Live Stream YouTube Webinar - Free SUMMARY:Free Live NSN Webinar Series: Exoplanet Watch: Inviting Citizen Sci entists to Observe Transiting Exoplanets END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR