================================================================== VITAL STATISTICS OF A TRANSIT SEARCH PROGRAMME ================================================================== Programme: BEST - Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope URL: http://solarsystem.dlr.de/Missions/corot/caesp/best.shtml Institution(s): DLR, Institute of Planetary Research Leader(s): Heike Rauer Contact: Heike Rauer Aperture: 20 cm Focal Ratio: F/2.7 Focal Length: 540 mm Field of view: 3.1x3.1 deg Number of CCDs: 1 CCD type: Apogee 10 pixel format: 2048 x 2048 pixel size: 5.5 arcsec Sites: Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg(TLS), Germany Observatoire de Haute-Provence(OHP), France Dates: TLS: July 2001 - May 2004 OHP: since November 2004 Field(s): several dense fields Clear nights: ~90 nights Candidates: 4 Candidates: 1 grazing eclipsing binary (see PASP 116, p38) 3 tbd Status and Plans: BEST is in its set-up phase at OHP and will start to perform observations on a routinely basis very soon. Target fields of the COROT satellite mission and additional selected target fields will be observed. References or comments: Rauer et al. 2004, PASP 116, p38 Rauer et al. 2004 b, Recent results from the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope. 2nd Eddington Workshop "Stellar-Structure and Habitable Planet Finding", Proceedings, April 9-11 2003, Palermo, Italy, ESA SP-538, 201. ================================================================== Updated: 2005.02.03