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The first WASP public data release

The WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project is an exoplanet transit survey that has been automatically taking wide field images since 2004. Two instruments, one in La Palma and the other in South Africa, continually monitor the night sky, building up light curves of millions of unique objects. These light curves are used to search for the characteristics of exoplanetary transits. This first public data release (DR1) of the WASP archive makes available all the light curve data and images from 2004 up to 2008 in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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Choosing Images to Process

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Go to the archive search page where you can access thousands of astronomical files.

Because this is for color imaging you may want to check the "Best observations" box under the Object Name box when you search so you will be more likely to get high quality images for processing.

Some suggestions of images you might like to search the archive for are: M16 - the Eagle Nebula, M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy, M57 - the Ring Nebula, M64 - the Blackeye Galaxy, NGC 5128 - "Centaurus A" Galaxy, NGC 5195 - Companion Galaxy of M51

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