Rebecca's blog posts

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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The ninth issue of the Citizen Sky Newsletter has been released! Take a look and see what we've been up to.

The eighth issue of the Citizen Sky Newsletter has now been posted!

We will be hosting a Citizen Sky online chat TODAY, March 5th, at 11am Eastern (-5UT). Members of the Citizen Sky DSLR Documentation and Reduction Team will be online to answer questions regarding their work and the article published in the April Issue of Sky & Telescope Magazine. This article, titled "Photometry for All in the Digital Age," was written by team members Brian Kloppenborg and Tom Pearson.  It describes the work of the DSLR team and explains that DSLR cameras can be quite effective for bright star photometry.

If you have a digital single-lens reflex camera and would like to know more about how to properly use it for photometry, please stop by with your questions.  Read more

We would like to congratulate one of the very first CS teams to form on a job well done!!

Most of the Citizen Sky teams will form during year 2 of the project and will have research/analysis related goals, but we did have a number of teams form in the first year of the project with non-research goals.  One of these, the 20/20 Vision team, formed very early in the project with the goal of introducing its members to the "ins and outs" of visual variable star observing.  The team leader, Chris Stephan, did a wonderful job of mentoring dozens of new observers.  Through close communication he coached members on selecting equipment, making observations, even doing outreach!  The team has decided to shut down now that they have reached their goal of learning the basics.  Congratulations on a job well done and a goal successfully met!!Read more

Check out this article in yesterday's issue of the Los Angeles Times featuring epsilon Aurigae and our very own Brian Kloppenborg!! 

The article even mentions the song written by CS worksop participant Bob Miller and refers to the eps Aur illustrations that exists as "artwork that would make Spock proud".  You can find the song, We are the Stars, and the illustrations made by CS participants on our Media Room Page.Read more

Aesthetic Solutions team leader, Nico Camargo has just updated his most recent eps Aur illustration!  You can view the new version here on the Citizen Sky media page.  Read more

Hello All,

Well, we've had some time to settle back into life after the 2nd Citizen Sky Workshop in San Francisco.  I still have some left over "warm fuzzies" from our time there.  Our venue, the California Academy of Sciences, was gorgeous and the staff there were very helpful and friendly.  We had a wonderful group of attendees and speakers.   I am very excited that everything was caught on video and look forward to posting those on the website soon.  I have already started to post the speakers' presentation files (ppt/pdf) so that you can follow along with the slides as you watch the videos once they are posted.  Read more