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How Citizen Astronomers Can Contribute to Exoplanet Research

This talk will cover how amateur astronomers and citizen scientists with small telescopes or even no telescope at all can meaningfully contribute to exoplanet research. The NASA Exoplanet Watch collaboration is now open to the general public and there is a need for more optics and eyeballs gathering and reducing data from transiting exoplanets. You will learn how to identify upcoming exoplanet transits, some tips for acquiring images, how to prepare them for processing via Exoplanet Watch's EXOTIC software tool, and then how to upload the results to the AAVSO's database. We'll also review how these measurements contributed to the characterization of particular exoplanets! ------------------------------ Our speaker is Erik Schmitt, an educator, outreach specialist and a former observatory director. He is the treasurer of the Southern Vermont Astronomy group or SoVerA.