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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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I thought I would answer these questions from my viewpoint.
1. Not now but did when I did my masters.
2. The furthering of our knowledge and understanding of our environment.
3. I have done a bit of this just to demonstrate that data that I can collect is valid. I am yet to go the next step and look for new data.
4. Not yet but I would like to start doing compatative photometry when I have a reproducable setup.
5. There is no "5"
It is nice to take pretty pictures but it is time consuming and apart from the nice desktop it produces doesn't achieve much scientifically. It does however increase the skill to make scientifically valid observations.