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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

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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

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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)


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