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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*.

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*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!

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Submitted by Aaron Price on August 25, 2010 - 1:48pm

The 2nd Citizen Sky Workshop is fast approaching! A (hopefully) final schedule has been posted here. This workshop has an opportunity to be one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. I haven't been able to find a record of a workshop with a similar theme: training citizen scientists to...

Submitted by Dr.Bob on August 8, 2010 - 12:48am

Although we won't be able to confirm until later, that mid-eclipse occurred as predicted during the end of July - beginning of August, all the evidence strongly suggests it's so. 


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Submitted by Dr.Bob on July 29, 2010 - 1:45pm

How the time flies.  Seems like yesterday (actually 2005) when the first observing proposals* for monitoring epsilon Aurigae were being submitted - and suddenly we have arrived at predicted mid-eclipse.  According to Jeff Hopkins, who has made a study of the light curves, he expected mid-eclipse to occur August 4th, 2010 = JD 2,455,...

Submitted by Aaron Price on July 16, 2010 - 10:29pm

We are excited to announce the debut of a 7-minute Citizen Sky planetarium show narrated by Timothy Ferris. Please help us share the word and distribute this video far and wide!

Submitted by Rebecca on July 16, 2010 - 4:22pm

The sixth issue of the Citizen Sky Newsletter has been released!

Note: It seems as though the email notification of...

Submitted by Rebecca on July 7, 2010 - 12:00pm

An updated version of the multi-platform, easy-to-use variable star data visualization and analysis tool, VStar, is now available! (To download the new version simply visit the VStar page and click on "Download VStar Now.")

Check out the recent posts by David Benn and...

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