Eight weeks / sixteen sessions / one research loop

A guided online observatory, without the software maze.

Students predict, inspect, measure, test, and defend. ExoInquiry handles code, file paths, calculations, and instrument guardrails behind the scenes.

8weeks

16sessions

45minutes

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Student mission path

Week 1 / SIGNAL

How can light reveal a world we cannot photograph?

WEEK OUTCOMEPredict and recognize the broad shape of a planetary transit.

TRANSIT MODELTRAINING NIGHTNO WRITING

A planet does not make a star disappear. It makes a shallow, time-bounded dip that recovers.

Your mission: Predict three possible light-curve shapes, watch a modeled transit, and lock the pattern that the data should contain.
Evidence saved: A prediction card that is automatically compared with the revealed signal.

Opening prediction / public preview

Honest data boundary

AVAILABLE · DEFAULT

Real public Sector 20 photometry, frozen and source-hashed so the class does not depend on a live archive request.

PILOT TESTING

The complete ground event and wider Phase III field. End-to-end TransitSift numerical QA remains open.

PILOT TESTING

The OGG 2 m rotator night retained for real similarity tracking, not as the complete-transit substitute.

ALWAYS AVAILABLE

Labeled deterministic data takes over after a source or capability failure, without changing the recorded request.

PLANNING READY

Students can assemble a request. Nothing is presented as sent until an observatory connection confirms it.