[Orig: June 29, 2018] Hi everyone, A bit of an edit to the past few weeks of measurements. I had made a coding mistake when generating these plots, and took me a bit to figure out what was going on... Ends up all the TFN measurements taken after June 1, 2018 (vertical line) being plotted were actually the measurements from June *2017*. Here is the corrected plot. Last couple days seem brighter. Note from previous post that still applies: The gray vertical line indicates th

[Orig: June 18, 2018] Hi everyone, My apologies for the extended silence over here. LCO had changed the instrument configuration in the beginning of June. This lead to a several issues in the standard data pipelines, and it took us a while to work through things. Data taken during the last week or so is updated on this new graph: The gray vertical line indicates the time of the change in configuration. There are still some remaining issues that we need to address for data t

As an author to a newly published paper about KIC 8462852, Tabby has invited me to tell you about it here. For those of you who don’t know me, I go by the Reddit handle of ‘gdsacco.’ I work in the cyber security domain, running a team for a global technology company. This is an important part of this story because it is not what I do for a living, it is what I do not do: astronomy. So how did I get swept into the most mysterious star in the galaxy? Before this star start