Blog / Monthly archive / January 2012

January 2012

Citizen Sky is now officially permanent part of the AAVSO. In the coming weeks we will be moving additional content to the AAVSO site and freezing this site as an archive of the 1st three years of the project. Please visit the new landing page for future updates.

Interesting eps Aur Poster at the Most Recent AAS Meeting

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

DSLR Team Chat: Completed, Transcript Here

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 UTC (2:00 PM Eastern).

The transcript can be found here.

The chat room can be accessed by pointing your browser here. Details about how to use dedicated chat clients (highly recommended) are here.

Brian
 

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

More stars. Less light. Participate in GLOBE at Night!

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

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

Upcoming S&T Article, Interview with Dr. Bob

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:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skytel/beyondthepage/Robert-Stencel-on-Epsilon-Aurigae-137116093.html

 

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

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