Read about the early history of the BRITE project as viewed by Science
Team member Slavek Rucinski: The early history of the BRITE project (pdf)
Sep 6, 2017: Offer for spectroscopic observations by Ernst Paunzen
Starting with Friday Sep 8, 2017, Ernst Paunzen will observe at Stara Lesna (Tatranska Lomnica) with the 60cm telescope for two weeks. He offers the opportunity for observations for the BRITE consortium. If someone needs spectroscopy, he/she should contact Ernst Paunzen directly.
May 27, 2017 – Watch BRITE-Austria pass a small field in Orion
The fantastic animation below shows a sequence of 20 images of a 10′ x 9′ field with center coordinates RA = 5:36:43 and DE = +13:15.5 taken on April 9, 2016, with the Andor iXon X3 EMCCD camera attached to the PST2 70-cm telescope in Winer Observatory, Arizona, and operated...
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Third BRITE-Constellation Science Conference, Aug 7-10, 2017
The Third BRITE-Constellation Science Conference will be held at Auberge
du Lac Taureau in Quebec, Canada, from August 7 to 10, 2017. Registration is now open!
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New targets for ground-based observations (Oct 16 – March 17)
We have selected new targets for ground-based amateur and professional observers for the period until about March 2017. Please find the corresponding table for download on the GBOT – Cooperations subpage. Any observer interested to collect data of these objects is most welcome to contact the corresponding BRITE scientist listed...
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