http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/04/07/april-7th-can-visual-observers-still-contribute-to-science/ An astronomy podcast every day, all year Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:09:26 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/04/07/april-7th-can-visual-observers-still-contribute-to-science/comment-page-1/#comment-2327 George Lenz Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:42:49 +0000 http://365daysofastronomy.org/?p=1007#comment-2327 Thanks for the encouragement. What I like to do is to get a chart, go to my scope and try to figure out just what star is the variable. I get quite excited when I find the dim thing. Finding stars in New Orleans is in itself quite a task.(Frequenly you can see stars brighter than 1st mag. but forget about 3rd or dimmer.)So I'm happy that what I enjoy can be useful to science. Thanks for the encouragement. What I like to do is to get a chart, go to my scope and try to figure out just what star is the variable. I get quite excited when I find the dim thing. Finding stars in New Orleans is in itself quite a task.(Frequenly you can see stars brighter than 1st mag. but forget about 3rd or dimmer.)So I’m happy that what I enjoy can be useful to science.

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