The Citizen Sky Planetarium Trailer (Poster abstract)

Volume 40 number 1 (2012)

Rebecca Turner

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; rebecca@aavso.org

Aaron Price

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; rebecca@aavso.org

Ryan Wyatt

American Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103; rwyatt@calacademy.org

Abstract

(Abstract only) Citizen Sky is a multi-year, citizen science project focusing on the bright variable star e Aurigae. We have developed a six-minute video presentation describing eclipsing binary stars, light curves, and the Citizen Sky project. Designed like a short movie trailer, the video can be shown at planetariums before their regular, feature shows or integrated into a longer presentation. The trailer is available in a wide range of formats for viewing on laptops all the way up to state-of-the-art planetariums. The show is narrated by Timothy Ferris and was produced by the Morrison Planetarium and Visualization Studio at the California Academy of Sciences. This project has been made possible by the National Science Foundation.