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Citizen Sky Newsletter #8

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Southern Hemisphere 10-Star Tutorial

The Southern Gems team, led by starladyjoan, has created a version of the 10-Star Tutorial that includes stars that can be seen from the southern hemisphere along with finder charts.
Click here to download it (PDF) or click here for the main 10-Star Tutorial page.
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Citizen Sky Newsletter #7

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The Academy's Visualisation Studio has worked with professional astronomers to create a planetarium show "trailer" for the NSF-funded Citizen Sky Project. Narrated by renowned author and educator Timothy Ferris, the six-minute "Citizen Sky: Epsilon Aurigae" will play at select NightLife events and will be made available at no cost to other planetariums nationwide. Since not everyone can make it to the planetarium for a special showing, this HD version will allow you to enjoy the show at home.

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Citizen Sky Newsletter #6

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Citizen Sky Newsletter #5
http://www.citizensky.org/sites/default/files/CSnewsletter5-june.pdf

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Calling All Amateur Astronomers: Help Solve a Mystery
A super-bright star is gradually going dim, and scientists want YOU to help them find out why.
For nearly 200 years, astronomers have been wondering why the star epsilon Aurigae turns down its light once every 27 years. Based on careful observations of the stars periodic dimming, scientists believe that the supergiant star must have a mysterious companion that blocks its light periodically. But they still dont know what that companion is.

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Wanted: People who like to keep an eye on the sky
This summer a bright star will begin a puzzling transformation that only happens every 27 years. To help study this event, astronomers have launched a new citizen science project called "Citizen Sky."

Epsilon Aurigae is a bright star that can be seen with the unaided eye even in very light-polluted areas of the northern hemisphere from fall to spring.
Late this summer, it is predicted to gradually lose half its brightness until early winter. It will remain faint during all of 2010 before slowly regaining its normal brightness by the summer of 2011.

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