Exocast-54b: Observing Exoplanets from the Ground

exocast

• Episode: Exocast-54b: Observing Exoplanets from the Ground
• Website: exocast
• Feed URL: http://www.exocast.org/feed/podcast/
• Duration: 00:56:05
• Published: 2021-09-29 17:03

In this episode the exocast team discuss how we observe exoplanets from the ground, how different it is from space, where we put the telescopes and why. The team start by sharing their journeys to telescopes around the world to make observations, and discuss the different bands in the atmosphere that we observe in. The main difference between ground- and space-based observatories is their size, the instruments on some of the ground-based observatories are room