I build software for a living. Astronomy is my hobby, and I'm pretty new to it.

I wrote a transit search and ran it on public TESS light curves of nearby K and M dwarfs.
Two signals came out of it: transits a few hundred parts per million deep, about 1.4 Earth radii each if they're on the target star. I tried to kill them in every way I could, yet they survived. Neither is validated.

And today I submitted one of them to JAAVSO to be peer-reviewed.

Is that the right road for an independent amateur, or is there a better way to get candidates like these in front of the people who do follow-up?

Thanks in advance!

Saw this morning at 7:50am PST outside of Vancouver, facing eastward. It wasn’t really moving in the sky, just in one place. I googled it and it said there’s no comets today, I don’t know what else it could be? Sorry just a quick pic while I was driving to work and stopped at a light, I hope it’s clear enough.

this timelapse was shot in the middle of Nevada on October 8th of this year

I admit this question is derived from a science fiction scenario, but I’m wondering what that actual astronomical terminogy would be here.

Assume you’re standing on a moon orbiting a gas giant. The moon is both tidally locked and in geostationary orbit, so if you look straight up, you’re always staring into a same storm raging on the planet below.

Each day on this moon is divided into four phases, and here’s where my question lie. As a layman, I refer to these phases as:

1. Morning: You get some oblique direct sunlight as the sun rises from your horizon before passing behind the gas giant.

2. False Day: The moon falls into total eclipse. Pretty dark, I assume.

3. Sunset: More oblique direct sunlight as the sun emerges from the gas giant before setting below your lunar horizon.

4. False Night: The sun is now below your horizon (but I assume you’re getting some twilight reflected off the gas giant filling your sky.

So, do these day-night-phases have actual technical terms?

Has anyone ever invented a "good" way to sort astronomical data? I am building a database and currently my best idea is to sort by increasing Right Ascension like a freak. I am trying to keep it pretty purpose/research-agnostic so it can be used easily by undergraduate students who may want to use the data later. I have a lot of targets in deep fields but some don't fit neatly into a conveniently-named area of the sky. My main itch about this is that whatever scheme I pick, I may unintentionally separate duplicates and close companions, or interleave two deep fields with similar RA values. Perhaps the solution in the end will be to add an easily-accessible interactive visualizer tool? Who knows. Let me know if you've seen a clever method in the past that you've found useful! Or let me know if I should just bite the bullet and do something that works.

I was out last night around 8:30 - 9:00 PM and decided to take a photo facing roughly northeast because I knew that the Andromeda galaxy would be in that general area. I do think I found it in the photo, but I'm curious if I got any other note-worthy things that can be seen in there, or maybe even tiny galaxies that I missed.

Was playing around with my phone’s night mode and used that one star app, which said that Andromeda was directly overhead. I did have a lot of artifacts and smudging, so I’m not entirely sure if that really is it. I live in a big town in NJ, so light pollution’s decently heavy here.

I keep seeing this cluster of stars whenever I go to look at Orion’s Belt I was just wondering what it’s called :D

I know this obviously cannot happen, given that the Sun is too small, but what would be visible from Earth at night if the Sun were to become a supernova? I imagine the light reflected by the Moon, planets, and asteroids would increase significantly in fact, I’m not even sure there would still be a "night," due to the twilight effect in the atmosphere.

In this hypothetical I am fixed to a certain spot on say, the equator. Taking into account both the suns rotation and all the planets orbits, would I be able to see them moving? If so, how fast? Would they roll across the sky like clouds, or zip by like a shooting star? Also please let me know if this is the wrong tag.

Question what is maximum soze a planet can have that humams could live on it like if earth just started gaining new mass amd growing wheres the cutvoff point to where it will start to cause major issues for life on tge planet or possibly developing life ?