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Originally Posted by higginsdj
1. Do you do 'Real' Science?
2. What do you think 'Real' Science is?
3. Do you 'reinvent the wheel' so to speak (perhaps just to prove you can do the observation/analysis etc)? ie being of of 200 observers reporting photometry for the same target on the same night or performing astrometry on a target who's position/orbit is know with an uncertainty smaller than the error of your own observations.
4. If you do any form of scientific work - what is it and why do you do it.
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Hi David, in answer to your questions
1. Yes
2. To me and in the amateur sense real science includes things such as variable star measurement, occultations, multiple star measurements, comet hunting, nova & supernova searches. These sort of things and a lot more I haven't mentioned are the sort of thing an amateur can do without having to outlay a small fortune.
3. No or at least I don't think I do.
4. Supernova searches, It's still in its infancy while I'm building up my library of target galaxy images for comparison.Why, I enjoy it as an ongoing project that I can build on each time I have an imaging session and I like the idea of being the first person to see something that spectacular.
Cheers