Private deep-sky observatory · est. 2019
Charting the deep sky, one faint signal at a time.
Kepl3r is a privately funded observatory devoted to long-baseline study of the deep sky. We operate our own instruments, collect photometry over years rather than nights, and turn the faintest periodic signals into measured, reproducible detections.
How we work
Patient instruments, kept on the same faint stars for years.
A private observatory answers to no observing queue. We hold our telescopes on the same targets season after season, so the shallow, periodic dips that betray a distant world have time to reveal themselves.
Transit photometry
We normalise and detrend brightness time-series, then search folded light-curves for the periodic dips that betray an orbiting body.
Habitability modeling
Radius, insolation and equilibrium temperature are combined to place each candidate relative to its star's conservative habitable zone.
Long-baseline archive
Every frame we have ever taken is kept. Detections are re-vetted against the full seven-year archive, so a signal earns confidence with each returning season.
Findings · habitable-zone selection
Worlds our stations have helped confirm.
Confirmed planets
Kepler mission| Designation | Distance (ly) | Radius (R⊕) | Period (d) | T eq (K) | Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-1649c | 301 | 1.06 | 19.5 | 234 | habitable |
| Kepler-186f | 580 | 1.17 | 129.9 | 188 | habitable |
| Kepler-22b | 640 | 2.40 | 289.9 | 262 | confirmed |
| Kepler-62f | 1200 | 1.41 | 267.3 | 208 | habitable |
| Kepler-442b | 1206 | 1.34 | 112.3 | 233 | habitable |
| Kepler-452b | 1400 | 1.63 | 384.8 | 265 | confirmed |
Live pipeline
ingestingMission
“We are not in a hurry. The stars have waited billions of years; they can wait for a clean measurement.”