1. PIRATE The piCETL Robotic Astronomical Telescope Explorer Ulrich Kolb, Robert Lucas, Vadim Burwitz

2. PIRATE site Observatori Astronomic de Mallorca (OAM) host observatory of SXR208 Longitude E 2° 57' 06'' Latitude N 39° 38' 38'' Altitude 203 m

4. Holmes & Horner 2009, 2010 Application at Level 3 (S382 Astrophysics) 10 week project (10 credits) in a 30 credits module Group working for data acquisition and analysis

5. The S382 tab of the PIRATE homepage http://pirate.open.ac.uk

6. Environmental monitor page on the S382 tab

7. Castor group S382 2010

9. A PIRATE observation of the transiting exoplanet XO-1 Data taken by PhD student Stefan Holmes (Kolb & Haswell) © Hans Deeg

10. Discovery of extragalactic novae: monitoring of M31

11. Acknowledgements http://pirate.open.ac.ukhttp://pirate.open.ac.uk and http://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/PIRATE/http://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/PIRATE/ Open University Stefan Holmes(OU PhD student; exoplanet research) Samantha Rolfe(Leicester & OU summer student) John Rostron (St.Andrews & OU summer student) John Barker (OU AL) Carole Haswell(OU) Vanessa Stroud(OU PhD student) OAM staff Juan Rodriguez (PIRATE representative) Salvador Sanchez (Director) Xisco Serra (IT support) Jaume Andreu (technical support)