A new opportunity for amateur astronomers to conduct citizen science is being proposed by a group of scientists lead by Robert Zellem, a scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has been working on ground- and space-based observations of the atmospheres of exoplanets, planets outside of our Solar System. […]
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) is an international non-profit organization of variable star observers whose mission is to enable anyone, anywhere, to participate in scientific discovery through variable star astronomy. The organization will host its Spring Meeting June 13 – 16 in Toronto, Canada. The AAVSO was […]
In understanding my approach towards creating SkyTools 4 Imaging, its worth considering how major professional observatories, such as ESO, use mathematical models of their telescope and instruments to plan their observations. It is useful to know the image scale, what exposure times to use, whether a star will bloom or […]