Talk:Wide Angle Search for Planets

Discovery table

Since all the planets in the table have known mass and radius, would it be appropriate to add a density column too? --Artman40 (talk) 11:52, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Go ahead, it would add information to the table.Quantanew (talk) 02:24, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

It can mess up the table though. --Artman40 (talk) 13:09, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

7 minute sweep

I was at a talk by one of the project members, Jakub Bochinski, a few days ago. He mentioned that each of the two telescopes performs a complete hemispheric sweep (imaging half the sky) every 7 minutes - hence, together, the whole sky in that time. (I'm pretty certain it was this project he was referring too, though he talked about several others.) This might be interesting to add. Unfortunately I don't have a reference for this at the moment. 31.53.186.67 (talk) 17:32, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Discovery table

Is there a specific reason for the current structure of the table that displays all the discovered planets? (e.g. the table or records is/are copied-pasted from a website, and/or pasted into other articles).

If not, I would change the layout and update the table (see example below) -- Cheers, Rfassbind – talk 01:27, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Old version

Star	Constellation	Right ascension	Declination	App. mag.	Distance (ly)	Spectral type	Planet	Mass (MJ)	Radius (RJ)	Orbital period (d)	Semimajor axis (AU)	Orbital eccentricity	Inclination (°)	Discovery year
WASP-8	Sculptor	23h 59m 36.07s	−35° 01′ 52.9″	9.9	160	G6	b	2.23	1.17	8.16	0.0793	0.3082	88.52	2008
WASP-8	Sculptor	23h 59m 36.07s	−35° 01′ 52.9″	9.9	160	G6	c	9.45		4323	5.28			2014
WASP-10	Pegasus	23h 15m 58s	+31° 27′ 46″	12.7	290	K5	b	3.06	1.08	3.0927616	0.0371	0.057	86.8	2008

New version

Star					Planet
designation constellation
	right asc. declin.	vmag	ly	type	designation	mass (MJ)	radius (RJ)	period (d)	a (AU)	e	i (°)	year
WASP-8 Sculptor	23h 59m 36.07s −35° 01′ 52.9″	9.9	160	G6	WASP-8b	2.23	1.17	8.16	0.0793	0.3082	88.52	2008
					WASP-8c	9.45		4323	5.28			2014
WASP-10 Pegasus	23h 15m 58s +31° 27′ 46″	12.7	290	K5	WASP-10b	3.06	1.08	3.0927616	0.0371	0.057	86.8	2008

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