You can contribute to the understanding of the universe that we all share.

Help us solve the mystery of epsilon Aurigae, a star that has baffled scientists since 1821. You don’t need any prior scientific training— we will give you all of the tools you need to become a citizen scientist*.

Everyone, regardless of science background, can play a role in the Citizen Sky Project… discover yours!  Get involved and you can do things like:

Learn about Astronomy Observe Stars Collaborate
Create Theories Study Data Publish Papers
*Citizen scientists are volunteers, many of whom have no prior scientific training, who work with trained scientific researchers to answer real-world questions. This means YOU!

Recent News

Submitted by bkloppenborg on January 27, 2012 - 12:18pm

Greetings Everyone,

The DSLR Documentation and Reduction team will host a team meeting in the AAVSO chatroom to discuss the final elements of our publication in JAAVSO on Saturday, Jan 28 at 19:00...

Submitted by Aaron Price on January 16, 2012 - 12:06pm

Another visual, night sky citizen science project needs your help...

Submitted by bkloppenborg on January 12, 2012 - 12:45pm

In a soon-to-print edition of Sky & Telescope there will be a feature article discussing epsilon Auriage and the contributions from amateur astronomers.  Before that comes out in press there are two podcast interviews between Bob Naeye from S&T and Dr. Bob which can be found in the link below:

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Submitted by Dr.Bob on December 31, 2011 - 3:21pm

     Now that the eclipse of 2009-2011 has ended, we can begin to reflect on the discoveries and realizations made possible by the new data.  To see where we are going, let's reflect on some more of the story leading up to the present.

Submitted by bkloppenborg on December 19, 2011 - 10:15pm

Greetings Everyone,

The DSLR Documentation and Reduction team will host a team meeting in the AAVSO chatroom to discuss our contribution to the upcoming JAAVSO special issue on Thursday, December 22 (due to a power outage and subsequent damage at AAVSO it has been rescheduled to) Wednesday, December 28 at 2:00 PM...

Submitted by bkloppenborg on December 16, 2011 - 5:17pm

It is very rare that I do a repost of a blog, but this time I had to make an exception.  Each day our friends over at Astrobites summarize a paper on ArXiv (or produce some other, similarly interesting blog post) written at an undergraduate readership level.  Yesterday's post discussed how brightness from stars (i.e. photometry) is...

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