PIRATEThe piCETL Robotic Astronomical Telescope Explorer

Ulrich Kolb, Robert Lucas, Vadim Burwitz

PIRATE site

• Observatori Astronomic de Mallorca (OAM)• host observatory of SXR208

Longitude E   2° 57' 06''Latitude    N 39° 38' 38''Altitude     203 m

Holmes & Horner2009, 2010

Application at Level 3 (S382 Astrophysics)

• 10 week project (10 credits) in a 30 credits module• Group working for data acquisition and analysis

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

Environmental monitor page on the S382 tab

Castor groupS382 2010

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

© Hans Deeg

Discovery of extragalactic novae:monitoring of M31

Acknowledgementshttp://pirate.open.ac.uk and http://www.open.ac.uk/wikis/PIRATE/

Open UniversityStefan 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 staffJuan Rodriguez (PIRATE representative)Salvador Sanchez (Director)Xisco Serra (IT support)Jaume Andreu (technical support)