PANOPTES: Open Source Exoplanet Discovery
summary
PANOPTES builds low-cost robotic telescopes from off-the-shelf parts — Canon SL2 bodies with off-brand 85mm prime lenses, an equatorial mount, Intel NUC controller and simple PCBs — to run an open-source, cloud-backed pipeline. Units take 10–300 exposures, produce ~38 GB per night each, and image up to ~100,000 stars per frame; a known transit is recovered to 1/10 of a percent accuracy. The network is already running in Hawaii, Australia and Massachusetts and survives harsh weather while the team refines Bayer-filter calibration and a scalable data pipeline.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00PANOPTES exoplanet project
- 4:59Why exoplanet discovery now
- 7:30Exoplanet detection techniques
- 14:36PANOPTES origin story
- 17:26PANOPTES hardware design
- 22:17Data capture and processing
- 29:34Help discover exoplanets
- 33:53Future plans & Q&A
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