EXOPLANET OBSERVING
FOR AMATEURS
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Books by Bruce L. Gary
ESSAYS FROM ANOTHER PARADIGM, 1992, 1993 (Abridged)
GENETIC ENSLAVEMENT:
A CALL TO ARMS FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERATION, 2004, 2006
THE MAKING OF A MISANTHROPE: BOOK 1, 2005
A MISANTHROPE’S HOLIDAY: VIGNETTES AND STORIES, 2007
QUOTES FOR MISANTHROPES: MOCKING HOMO HYPOCRITUS, (2007)
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EXOPLANET OBSERVING
FOR AMATEURS
Bruce L. Gary
Reductionist Publications, d/b/a
5320 E. Calle Manzana
Hereford, AZ 85615
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Reductionist Publications, d/b/a
5320 E. Calle Manzana
Hereford, AZ 85615
USA
Copyright 2007 by Bruce L. Gary
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First edition: 2007 August
Printed by Mira Digital Publishing, St. Louis, MO
ISBN 978-0-9798446-3-8
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Dedicated to the memory of
Carl Sagan
A giant among men, who would have loved the excitement of exoplanet
discoveries, that would have further inspired him to speculate about
life in the universe.
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Author’s amateur exoplanet light curve of XO-1 made in 2006 (average of two
transits) with a 14-inch telescope and R-band filter at his Hereford Arizona
Observatory. Exoplanet XO-1b moves in front of the star during contact 1 to contact
2, is obscuring ~2.2 % of the star’s disk between contacts 2 and 3, and is movi