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Attending an Astro-April webinar with Citizen Sky is simple! 

Just follow these steps:

Before the Talk

• To register for an Astro-April online talk simply follow the link provided in the schedule. You can do this any time between now and when the talk is over.
• This will reserve a space for you in the webinar.
• You will be sent a confirmation email with a link to follow when the webinar has started.
• When you follow this link your computer will need to download and run an applet, so please allow this when prompted.
• You will then be logged into the webinar!

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Attending an Astro-April webinar with Citizen Sky is simple! 

Just follow these steps:

Before the Talk

• To register for Bob Naeye's online talk (scheduled for Wed April 4th at 3pm EST/19:00 UT) CLICK HERE and enter your information. You can do this any time between now and when the talk is over.
• This will reserve a space for you in the webinar.
• You will be sent a confirmation email with a link to follow when the webinar has started.
• When you follow this link your computer will need to download and run an applet, so please allow this when prompted.
• You will then be logged into the webinar!

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Recordings for all Astro-April online talks have been posted below!

To celebrate the achievements of the Citizen Sky Project and to introduce our participants to the wider world of astronomy, we planned a month-long celebration called Astro-April, which took place in April of 2012.  We scheduled webinars throughout the month on various variable star topics. We also gave out many awards and prizes throughout the month.

The schedule of talks is listed below.  Links to recordings of each talk are included in the table.

The videos are in .wmv format, which can be viewed natively with Windows. If you are using MacOS X, please download and install Flip4Mac_WMV to view the videos.Read more

If you’d rather not have the Citizen Sky Newsletter show up in your e-mail inbox, there are two options. First, you can auto-filter it using your mailing software to place it in its own folder. The subject line of the newsletter email will always begin with “Citizen Sky Newsletter,” so it’s easy to filter. Secondly, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter email or by visiting your Citizen Sky user profile. Read more

Here we will highlight the research activities and results of Citizen Sky staff, participants, and other colleagues.Read more

• Dr. Bob and Brian discuss the implications of the April 8 Nature paper on epislon Aurigae
• Brian offers you a glimpse of what an observing run is like at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) as he and Dr. Bob observe eps Aur

Help us make this section grow! If you know of an individual or organization that has a web page about Eps Aur or the Epsilon Aurigae project, please let us know so we can add it here.Read more

Citizen Sky fully respects your right to privacy. As such, we do not use any method to pull data (such as e-mail addresses) from your computer. When you visit our site, the only data we obtain is that which is logged to our web server. We use the common log format with referrer and user-agent variables added. This is known in the web server world as the combined log format and is the Internet standard.Read more

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This page will be populated with questions frequently asked of the project. Since the project just launched, we have few questions - whether frequently asked or not! Expect this page to expand over the coming weeks as we slowly populate the rest of the web site.

Until then, if you have a question feel free to contact us via this form.

Q: Do I need a telescope to participate?
A: No. This star is so bright that you don't even need binoculars to observe it.

Q: Do I need to be an expert?Read more