We are excited to announce the launch of our new forums! You can access it forums.aavso.org. For questions, please see our blog post. The forums at aavso.org/forum have become read-only.
AAVSO creates education so that anyone can become a citizen astronomer who makes a valuable contribution to science. You can choose to collect or analyze data in a number of different ways.
Interactive education with experts and AAVSO observers:
Programs and events: Current and upcoming educational programs and events of varying levels and subjects. Includes introductory material, observing techniques, and astronomy research.
Observing Sections: AAVSO volunteer-headed sub-communities of individuals involved with particular types of observing and data collecting.
Tutorials: for those with no experience with variable stars and very little astronomical experience. They walk you through the basics of variable star science and provide challenges to apply the concepts.
Data Mining Projects with VSX: all you need is your computer, an internet connection, and patience. These projects focus on unveiling unknown properties of suspected variable stars.
Why observe variable stars (and yes, you can do it too!) AAVSO board member Bill Stein and the Astronomical League presents why variable star observing is such an important facet of astronomy. Stein also touches base on how observing with the AAVSO communicates important data to professional astronomers. Starting at 22:29 in the video,
Stein shows where on the AAVSO website you can find more tools to start observing with the AAVSO so you can make your real contribution to astronomy!
