<aside> <img src="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Not a scientist? No fancy equipment? Thanks to citizen science projects, any amateur astronomer can get involved in research and help make new discoveries possible without even leaving home. Here are over 10 ongoing opportunities to get involved in 2023.
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Help catalog, digitize, and transcribe over 2500 logbooks and notebooks produced by Women Astronomical Computers and other early astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory to make their valuable work as accessible as possible.
Look at unprocessed telescope images of distant galaxies to help scientists classify them according to their shapes. If you're quick, you may even be the first person to ever see the galaxies you're asked to classify.
Together, you and thousands of other participants will find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to Earth!
This project involves identifying cities shown in images taken at night, from space! The aim is to create the first full-color map of the Earth at night to aid worldwide research in light pollution, ecology, and more.
Cities at Night - The first night color maps of the Earth
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
You can help AAVSO by applying your skills in observing, data mining, analysis, writing, and more.