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Amateur Community and “Citizen Science”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Arne A. Henden
Arne A. Henden*
Affiliation:
AAVSO, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA email: arne@aavso.org
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Abstract

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Citizen Science is the act of collecting or analyzing data by enlisting the help of volunteers who may have no specific scientific training. The workshop discussed how “Citizen Science” fits into time-domain astronomy, what the roles of such volunteers might be, and how amateur astronomers can help in the new era of surveys.

Keywords

surveystechniques: photometricstars: variables: other
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 255 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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