Rosetta ground based campaign: calling all amateur astronomers
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/04/08/rosetta-ground-based-campaign-calling-all-amateur-astronomers
This post is based on an article published on the NASA JPL Rosetta science blog. Are you an amateur astronomer? The Rosetta mission has an opportunity for you, one that will allow you to collaborate with professional astronomers and study a #comet in tandem with a real space mission. Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher, who is the Rosetta Coordinator of Amateur Observations for Comet 67P/C-G, would like to alert the amateur astronomer community and invite them to participate in a campaign to observe this comet during the coming months. She says: “We are looking to bring an entire community of professional and amateur observers together. When else can you observe a comet at the same time a spacecraft is viewing it at close proximity and escorting it to perihelion, and be able to correlate both sets (...)
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