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Amateur astronomers and other non-professionals make contributions through ongoing citizen science projects: XO Project, an international team of amateur and professional astronomers tasked with identifying extrasolar planets. Many amateur astronomers contribute to scientific discoveries as part of the citizen science Zooniverse project.
A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers for the purpose of observing objects and events in the sky. Local star parties may be one-night affairs, but larger events can last a week or longer and attract hundreds or even thousands of participants. Many astronomy clubs have monthly star parties during the warmer months.
In the beginning years of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project, NASA and Congress were interested in finding ways for amateur astronomers to participate in HST research. The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Riccardo Giacconi, decided to allocate some of his "Director's Discretionary" time to amateur observing ...
Deep-Sky Planner is observation planning and logging software for amateur astronomers. It helps observers to determine where and when to view all types of celestial objects. It runs on Windows. Deep-Sky Planner was originally published [1] April 1, 1994 by Sky Publishing Corporation. Knightware, LLC began publishing Deep-Sky Planner in 2005. [2]
A Sidewalk Astronomer; Sidewalk astronomy; Sky & Telescope; The Sky (magazine) SkyScout; Société d'astronomie de Montréal; StarPeace Project; Sufi Observing Competition; Systemic (amateur extrasolar planet search project)
The Astronomical League is an umbrella organization of amateur astronomy societies. [1] Currently their membership consists of over 330 [2] organizations across the United States, along with a number of Members-at-Large, Patrons, and Supporting members.
It is the practice and study of observing celestial objects with the use of telescopes and other astronomical instruments. As a science, the study of astronomy is somewhat hindered in that direct experiments with the properties of the distant universe are not possible. However, this is partly compensated by the fact that astronomers have a vast ...
Professional astronomers do not have the resources to monitor every variable star. Hence, astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs can make significant contributions to research. [2] In 2011, the 100th year of the AAVSO's existence, the twenty-millionth variable star observation was received into their database. [3]