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Wed 19 Jun
|Amersham
Lecture - Dr Dirk Froebrich - HOYS-CAPS citizen science project
Time & Location
19 Jun 2019, 20:00
Amersham, Barracks Hill, Amersham, Coleshill, Amersham HP7 0LN, UK
About the Event
Dr Dirk Froebrich from the University of Kent has been running the HOYS-CAPS citizen science project since October 2014. HOYS-CAPS stands for Hunting Outbursting Young Stars with the Centre of Astrophysics and Planetary Science. The aim of the project is long term, multi-filter optical photometric monitoring of young (age less than 10Myr), nearby (distances typically within 1kpc) star clusters or star forming regions visible from the northern hemisphere.
The project currently involves about 10 amateur astronomers from the UK, as well as from Europe and is supported by some additional professional observatories. The participants take images of objects on their target list, perform a basic data reduction (flat-fielding and dark/bias correction) and submit these reduced images for inclusion into their database via a newly developed web-interface (at http://astro.kent.ac.uk/HOYS-CAPS/). This interface will soon also allow participants to plot and study light-curves of any star imaged by the project.
At the time…