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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*.

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

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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!

Recent News

Submitted by bkloppenborg on February 4, 2012 - 5:47pm

Greetings,

The DSLR Team completed another chat session today concerning their upcoming JAAVSO publication.  This session was extra long (nearly 3 hours).  The chat transcript can be found here.  We will be hosting our next chat...

Submitted by Rebecca on January 31, 2012 - 12:10pm

Take a look at this poster that was presented at the most recent AAS meeting: "Long-Term Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Monitoring of epsilon Aurigea During the 2009-11 Eclipse"  Our data are even used in one of the figures!!

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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.

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