Welcome!/What is Citizen Sky?

Welcome to the Citizen Sky forum!

Citizen Sky had it's start in 2009 as a 3-year, NSF funded citizen science project focusing on the eclipse of epsilon Aurigae. A description of the project can be found here.  [1]The first three years of the project culminated in a special edition of the Journal of the AAVSO [2] (JAAVSO) focused on epsilon Aurigae with papers written by project participants.

Now that the epsilon Aurigae eclipse is over and the issue of the JAAVSO is being published, Citizen Sky has a new mission -- more than one in fact!  Citizen Sky will be the new home of bright variable star activities at the AAVSO.  We have already developed a binocular observing program [3] and will be developing a DSLR observing manual in early 2013. [4]

We are excited to begin this new chapter in the life of Citizen Sky.  Ideas are brewing about additional programs/projects to bring to Citizen Sky, so stay tuned to see what's in store!