https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-hunters-ngts

Computers are searching through the NGTS observations looking for the repeated dips due to planet transits. The automated algorithms produce lots and lots of possible candidate transit events that need to be reviewed by the NGTS team to confirm whether they are real or not. Most of things spotted by the computers are not due to exoplanets, but a small handful of these candidates are new bona fide planet discoveries. A small group within the NGTS team review all the candidate transit events spotted by the computers. We think there might be planets that got missed in this review. We need your help to go through all of the observations flagged by the algorithms to help search for hidden planets not found in the first review. Most planets in the data you will review have already been found by the NGTS team, but you just might be the first to find a new exoplanet not known before.

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-hunters-ngts/classify

fsm said:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-hunters-ngts

Computers are searching through the NGTS observations looking for the repeated dips due to planet transits. The automated algorithms produce lots and lots of possible candidate transit events that need to be reviewed by the NGTS team to confirm whether they are real or not. Most of things spotted by the computers are not due to exoplanets, but a small handful of these candidates are new bona fide planet discoveries. A small group within the NGTS team review all the candidate transit events spotted by the computers. We think there might be planets that got missed in this review. We need your help to go through all of the observations flagged by the algorithms to help search for hidden planets not found in the first review. Most planets in the data you will review have already been found by the NGTS team, but you just might be the first to find a new exoplanet not known before.

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-hunters-ngts/classify

> The automated algorithms produce lots and lots of possible candidate transit events that need to be reviewed by the NGTS team to confirm whether they are real or not.

Been there, done that. Written one of those automated alhorithms. Found new exoplanets. They checked them.

The greatest problem is distinguishing between exoplanets and eclipsing binary stars, which is not something that a casual observer can determine because a grazing eclipse by a binary star looks like a full on eclipse by an exoplanet.