Planet Discovered Using Telephoto Camera Lenses

[rvr] writes "The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) reports the discovery of an extra-solar planet called XO-1b, which orbits a dim star in Corona Borealis every 4 days. To find it, the brightness of several thousand stars were regularly scanned using two mini-telescopes in Hawaii. This equipment was built using commercial hardware: two digital cameras, attached to telephoto camera lenses on a robotic equatorial mount. A team of amateur astronomers helped with their own equipment to discard or confirm dozens of suspected transits."

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it's a freaking pain in the b-hind reading scuttlemonkeys items when he insists on linking every second f'ing word. do you want people to be able to read your blurtings or not? people writing like you are a curse on the internet that spells REALLY BAD AND ANNOYING NAVIGATION.

that harmless rant aside, nice stuff!