Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...21110608j&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #106.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.934
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The IYA 2009 working group on Research Experience for Students, Teachers, and Citizen-Scientists is planning a multi-year project involving variable stars. The project will begin with training programs of several types of binary and transient variable stars that are easy to observe from suburban locations with the naked eye. Eventually it will lead to a capstone project: monitoring the rare and mysterious 2009-2010 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! Projects will be developed for three audiences: amateurs, the general public and educators. Planning is still underway; advice and offers to help are welcome.
Fortson Lucy
Hartman Matthew
Jacoby Suzanne H.
Lochner James C.
Price Aaron
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