http://english.taurushill.net The RSS feed of the latest 10 articles at Taurus Hill Observatory en http://english.taurushill.net/misc/exoplanet-researcher-gregory-laughlin-visited-in-taurus-hill-observatory.html Gregory Laughlin and his wife were guests of honour in the Cygnus 2008 -event. Laughlin is known as one of the exoplanet researchers that collaborates with the amateur astronomers. In the Cygnus 20 http://english.taurushill.net/extrasolar-planets/sixteenth-exoplanet-observed-at-taurus-hill-observatory.html HAT-P-4b is sixteenth exoplanet that has beed successfully observed at THO. Themeasurements of theHAT-P-4bwere made 10./11.5.2008 by the Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen. T http://english.taurushill.net/extrasolar-planets/fifteenth-exoplanet-hat-p-5b-measured-at-tho.html Exoplanet HAT-P-5b was discovered October 2007. It circulates the star GSC 2634-1087 that is about 11.9 magnitude bright. It is located in the Lyra about 1100 light years from the Earth. The star i http://english.taurushill.net/supernovae/grb080430-photographed-at-taurus-hill-observatory.html The afterglow of the gammaray burtsGRB080430 is clearly visible in the pictures that were taken at Taurus Hill Observatory by the Veli-Pekka Hentunenand Markku Nissinen. They used http://english.taurushill.net/supernovae/supernovae-sn2008p-and-sn2008bx.html Supernovae SN2008P and SN2008bx were photographed 24./25.4.2008 at Taurus Hill Observatory by the research team members Hentunen and Nissinen. SN2008bx was discovered 22.4.2008 by Tim Pucket. The http://english.taurushill.net/extrasolar-planets/exoplanets-xo-2b-and-gj436b-observed-at-taurus-hill-observatory.html Taurus Hill Observatory's research team member Veli-Pekka Hentunen measured the light curves of the exoplanets XO-2band GJ436b at Taurus Hill Observatory 22./23.4.2008. Veli-Pekka used photom http://english.taurushill.net/misc/taurus-hill-observatorys-mesurements-as-part-of-the-oj-287-nature--article.html Taurus Hill Observatory's research team members Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen made photometric observations about the blazar OJ 287 over one year for the research team thatis led by http://english.taurushill.net/supernovae/sn2008bo-has-brightened.html After quite long cloudy period we succeeded to image SN2008bo at THO 12/13.4.2008 night. We measured the magnitude of SN2008bo 15.9R. We also imaged SN2008bn, which we measured as magnitude 16.5R http://english.taurushill.net/supernovae/sn2008bo-in-colours.html SN2008bocolour picture was photographed by using the photometric filters. The picture below iscombined in MaximDL by the 5x300 sec. L, 5x300 sec. R, 3x300 sec. Vand 4x300 sec. B e http://english.taurushill.net/supernovae/new-supernova-sn2008bo-discovered-at-taurus-hill-observatory.html Taurus Hill Observatory continued the supernova search program with great success. Research team members Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen photograhed galaxy NGC 6643(about 78bly