The Origins and Future of the Citizen Sky Project

Volume 40 number 2 (2012)

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Aaron Price

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; address email correspondence to R. Turner, aavso@aavso.org

Rebecca Turner

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; address email correspondence to R. Turner, aavso@aavso.org

Robert E. Stencel

University of Denver, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2112 E. Wesley Avenue, Denver, CO 80208; rstencel@du.edu; bkloppen@du.edu

Brian K. Kloppenborg

University of Denver, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2112 E. Wesley Avenue, Denver, CO 80208; rstencel@du.edu; bkloppen@du.edu

Arne A. Henden

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

Abstract

Citizen Sky arose as a product of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy (IYA) project. Aaron Price was appointed to the U.S. IYA Program Committee when it was first constituted in 2006.