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NEAs in SDSS, DASCH astronomy history project #106

Closed ccld closed 10 years ago

ccld commented 10 years ago

Projects for citizen science in collaboration with astronomers are not limited to Stardust and zooniverse.

It would be fair to cite

drphilmarshall commented 10 years ago

Thanks @ccld, we'll check these out.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:16 AM, ccld notifications@github.com wrote:

Projects for citizen science in collaboration with astronomers are not limited to Stardust and zooniverse.

It would be fair to cite

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the programme of precovering Near Earth Asteroids. This is an educational programme conducted by the Spanish Virtual Observatory ( http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/near/main/ ) of identifying and measuring asteroids in SDSS by Aladin tool. The public data sent are checked by the SVO team and forwarded to the MPC which publish them. Published paper: http://svo.cab.inta-csic.es/files/svo/Public/SVOPapers/proceedings/rodrigoc.pdf ; twitter ObsVirtEsp @ObsVirtEsp .

Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics DASCH project- Logbook https://transcription.si.edu/browse?filter=collection%3A3

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drphilmarshall commented 10 years ago

Paper from SVO also on ADS at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014AN....335..142S via #108

drphilmarshall commented 10 years ago

I added some notes on the SVO project, it's nice that it works via Aladin and MPCs! This relates to one of our conclusions, that it could be a good idea to build future science user interfaces with citizens in mind... The DASCH project is also interesting, and I can see how transcribing the log books of 100 year old photographic plates that are being digitized and measured is important - it just feels qualitatively different to all the other projects we have reviewed. I guess its that much less astronomy knowledge/understanding is needed in order to contribute: one could transcribe a logbook page without having any idea of what it was about. So, I think I'm going to leave this one out. Thanks again, @ccld!