Reaching For The Stars !!

[Randy Meijer]

ASTRONOMERS ASK FOR PUBLIC HELP WITH PROJECT

Classify galaxies as being CW spiral, CCW spiral, or no spiral pattern at all. There are millions of galaxies to classify and the public (world wide) has been asked to help with classification.

Here is the public news report

Login, view a tutorial, take a short test and if you get 8 correct, then you get to join the GalaxyZoo project

And for those that are interested, here is the link to the NASA project looking for help to find comet dust.....called STARDUST.

[Per Swenson]

Randy,

Are you a stargazer?

Would you mind sharing with us your equipment,knowledge and such?

Betcha more then a few would be interested.

Per

[Randy Meijer]

Sorry to disappoint; but there isn't a lot to tell. I'm a science junkie by pre-disposition and education.....BA Geology. I have a modest little telescope that I purchased used on eBay a couple of years ago. It comes out about a half dozen times a year; but one would hardly call me a dedicated or serious stargazer.