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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

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!

Video Introduction to the Citizen Sky Project

By Rebecca Turner, the Citizen Sky Project Manager— outtakes included!

The Citizen Sky TrailerRead more

• Dr. Arne Henden, Project Principal Investigator
• Rebecca Turner, Project Manager
• Dr. Aaron Price, Project Creator and Director
• Kate Davis, Web Developer
• Dr. Robert Stencel, Lead Scientist/epsilon Aurigae expert
• Dr. Lucy Fortson, Senior Advisor
• Jordan Raddick, Web Consultant
• Ryan Wyatt, Visualization Developer
• Brian Kloppenborg, Graduate Student

The People

Dr. Arne Henden

Project Principal InvestigatorRead more

Citizen Sky is a citizen science project providing you with a chance to do real scientific research. We are seeking to understand a star that has been a mystery to scientists for many years. This star is epsilon Aurigae, a very interesting, very bright star located in the constellation Auriga, the charioteer.Read more