Citizen Science for the International Year of Astronomy

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May 2008

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #212, #35.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.234

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The IYA 2009 working group on Research Experience for Students, Teachers, and Citizen-Scientists is planning a multi-year project involving occulting systems. The project will include both observing and data analysis components. It begins with training programs of several types of binary and transient variable stars that are easy to observe from suburban locations with the naked eye. Participants will be trained both in observing and also in basic data analysis of photometric datasets (light curve and period analysis). Eventually it will lead to a capstone project: monitoring the rare and mysterious 2009-2011 eclipse of Epsilon Aurigae. In the summer of IYA 2009, third-magnitude Eps Aur will experience its next eclipse, which occurs every 27.1 years and lasts 714 days, nearly two years! However, the program is not limited to Eps Aur and will also include other
occultation events such as monitoring mutual eclipses of satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. Planning is still underway; advice and offers to help are welcome.

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