Media Room

Media Room

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.

Video Introduction to the Citizen Sky Project

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

 

The Citizen Sky Trailer

This video was designed and produced to be a short movie trailer to be shown at planetariums before their regular, feature presentation. Click here or on a screen shot to view it via YouTube. It is also available in just about any video format you may need for regular TV, movie theatre or full-dome presentation (including high definition, H.264, 5.1 surround sound, etc.) for just about any planetarium technology. It is free for most uses and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Feel free to show the video at any event, including local star parties, club meetings, classes, etc. Also, please help promote it via blogs and such. :) And if any planetarium/museum would like the full high resolution version, contact us and we'll coordinate how to deliver it to you.

This is a very professionall produced video made by some of the best award-winning science visualizers on the planet. It was directed by Ryan Wyatt, the Director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academies. (BTW, this is also where our 2nd workshop will be held this September.) We would like to thank Ryan and his staff for their hard work. Of course, we'd also like to thank Timothy Ferris for donating his time as well.
 

Please, feel free to comment and ask questions about the video via this thread. Ryan spoke a little about the video and his philosophy about science visualization at the last workshop. We have video of his talk on this page.

Update: Higher resolution versions of the video are now available via the following links.
 

Citizen Sky Logo

   Citizen Sky Logo for light backgrounds and dark backgrounds.
 

Most Recent eps Aur Illustration:
The latest illustration of eps Aur from Aesthetic Solutions team leader, Nico! (Click thumbnail for full-sized version.)

Please credit the use of this artwork with: "By Nico Camargo and courtesy www.citizensky.org"

Press Releases

  • "2010: The Year of the Baffling Eclupse" (January 5, 2010) in English and Spanish.
  • "Reach for the Citizen Sky" (August 14, 2009) in English and Spanish.
  • All Illustrations

Anyone is welcome to use the following materials in their own publications as long as the appropriate license is followed. Feel free to contact us if you would like something customized for your use. All artwork is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Basically that means attribution needs to be given (see below) and derivitative works are allowed as long as they follow the same license.

epsilon Aurigae artwork, by Brian Thieme:

Please credit the use of this artwork with: "By Brian Thieme and courtesy www.citizensky.org". 

 epsilon Aurigae artwork by Nico Camargo:

Please credit the use of this artwork with: "By Nico Camargo and courtesy www.citizensky.org".

  The latest illustration of eps Aur from Aesthetic Solutions team leader, Nico! (Click thumbnail for full-sized version.)


Please credit the use of this artwork with: "By Nico Camargo and courtesy www.citizensky.org"
 

Song Titled "We Are the Stars" composed for Citizen Sky by Bob Miller.
 

Please credit the use of this song with: "By Bob Miller and courtesy www.citizensky.org"
 

A diagram of the most popular model of the epsilon Aurigae system, by Jeff Hopkins:

A 6 minute video introduction to Citizen Sky and epsilon Aurigae, using Lite Brite diagrams as illustrations:

We also have a PowerPoint presentation aimed at an amateur astronomy audience.

Two-sided half page flyer on the Citizen Sky Project.
 

Sky & Telescope:

The May 2009 issue of Sky & Telescope Magazine included an article on epsilon Auigae, titled “The Very Long Mystery of Epsilon Aurigae” and was written by a member of the Citizen Sky Team, Dr. Robert Stencel.  This issue also included a sidebar on the (yet to be named when the issue went to press) Citizen Sky Project, titled “A Variable Star for Everyone.” The sidebar was written by Citizen Sky Team member, Aaron Price. Sky & Telescope has kindly placed a copy of the article online for download in PDF format.

Sky & Telescope News Blog (June 4, 2008): Predicting a Stellar Catastrophe
Sky & Telescope News Blog (July 28, 2009): Epsilon Aurigae Eclipse Underway
 

Articles:

Blogs:

The following is a list of links to recent articles about Citizen Sky written by other bloggers:

Podcast Features:

Citizen Sky was featured in the August 2009 episode of Astrocast.TV's Our Night Sky with Tavi Greiner

Citizen Sky was featured in the July 7, 2009 episode of the 365 Days of Astronomy Daily Podcast of the IYA.


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