First Direct Photo of an Extrasolar Planet

[RisingFury]

I have a meade Infinity hoping to get a new one soon.

No. You're not gonna see anything with an amateur telescope. You need a way to at least partially block the light from the parent star to see the planet. You'll probably need far better angular resolution as well...

 

[Unstung]

Amazing how tiny that planet would appear from the ground without any aid, not to mention it would be impossible to see.

 

[Alexw95]

amazing

 

[T.Neo]

Ooh... a pretty picture... in VR.

But still no data on the atmosphere, the density, any system of moons, temperature...

I may be unusually interested in the raw data, but at least raw data can be used to put together an accurate depiction of the planet. :hmm:

We know orders of magnitude more about individual organisms that lived 150 million years ago than we do about even the closest planets outside of our own solar system...

 

[RisingFury]

Ooh... a pretty picture... in VR.

But still no data on the atmosphere, the density, any system of moons, temperature...

I may be unusually interested in the raw data, but at least raw data can be used to put together an accurate depiction of the planet. :hmm:

Well, we can take another picture of this planet in some time, determine the angle between it's orbital plane and the star-Earth line... then we instantly learn magnitudes more.