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Online talk w/Dr. Bob this Friday at 11am EST
Dr. Bob will join us for a webinar/online talk about the recent science of epsilon Aurigae and a summary of what we learned from this eclipse. Read more
AAVSO April New Membership Sale
The AAVSO, the parent organization of Citizen Sky, is holding a 50% off membership sale for Citizen Sky participants for the month of April. AAVSO membership comes with free access to robotic telescopes all over the world!Read more
More stars. Less light. Participate in GLOBE at Night!
Another visual, night sky citizen science project needs your help...
Full Eclipse Light Curve
Check out a new light curve we have posted that contains all your data submitted since the start of the campaign!
Year 3 Update
Year 3 of Citizen Sky is underway. Here is an overview of what to expect in the next 12 months. And please remember to keep observing through the Winter!
Evaluation Opportunity
Jennifer Borland, and evaluation and education research expert, is working on a short term project regarding our online forums. If you are interested in participating in qualitative data analysis over the next few weeks, check out her post!
Call for Papers for special AAVSO/Citizen Sky Journal
The AAVSO & Citizen Sky have formally issued a Call for Papers for articles about epsilon Aurigae, similar stars and techniques for bright star observations. This will be the capstone for the Citizen Sky project and much help is available for those new to scholarly publication.
The AAVSO & Citizen Sky have formally issued a Call for Papers for articles about epsilon Aurigae, similar stars and techniques for bright star observations. This will be the capstone for the Citizen Sky project and much help is available for those new to scholarly publication. Read more
An Alternative Disk Model from Budaj (2011)
Dr. Jan Budaj has published an alternative disk model (using your observations!) that explains the mid eclipse brightening without the need for a hole in the disk. He has written an explanation of the new model. Click here to read it in our forums.
A Week of Online Chats for New Beginners: July 25, 2011
The AAVSO and Citizen Sky will be hosting three online chat sessions for beginners to variable star observing during the week of July 25, 2011. Below are the list of the chat topics. However, feel free to bring up any topic at any chat.
The chat room can be accessed by pointing your browser here. Details about how to use dedicated chat clients are here.
Beginner Chat #1: Visual Observing
Monday, July 25 at 9pm eastern (-4UT)
(Brian Kloppenborg will be available for this chat.)
Beginner Chat #2: CCD Observing
Tuesday, July 26 at 7pm eastern (-4UT)
Beginner Chat #3: Science of variables
Wednesday, July 27 at 3pm eastern (-4UT)
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Instant Science from Historic Spectra
Dr. Elizabeth Griffin, an esteemed astronomer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, recently contributed a forum post about her analysis of hundreds of spectra from the 1956 and 1983 eclipses.
The following bio for Dr. Griffin is from this abstract to a talk about data security she gave in Maerch, 2011:Read more
