Exomoons | Sebastian Spicker

2025

1 article

25 Dec 2025 A Christmas Star (Minus the Star, Plus a Moon Nobody Asked For) A browser-based simulator for exoplanet transit photometry, binary eclipses, and exomoon scenarios — with Keplerian and N-body paths, limb-darkening models, and timing diagnostics. It is an educational simulator, not a validated research pipeline. I spent Christmas on this. You’re welcome, science. exoplanetsphotometrysimulation

2023

1 article

14 Sep 2023 Can a Planet Have a Moon? Teaching Exomoon Detection with a Disco Ball Motor Every classroom treatment of exoplanet detection focuses on the transit method. What gets omitted is that moons of exoplanets could also host life — and that with a small motor and a slight modification to the standard transit experiment, you can show students what an exomoon signature looks like in a light curve. Published in MNU Journal in 2023. astronomy-educationexomoonsexoplanets