As you know, there are often collaborations between amateur and professional astronomers. Technology has made available, including pockets of the individual, instruments with appreciable sensitivity. In addition, certain astronomical events, rather than require state of the art tools, require more of a long and detailed monitoring, in order to understand better the nature of cosmic sources.
I read today on the site arXiv preprint that hosts the major scientific publications, a couple of notes about it. One is written by T. Eversberg ( Spectroscopic madness - A golden age for amateurs ), while the other is by JH Knapen ( Between Scientific collaborations in astronomy amateurs and professionals ). Both are focused on stellar astronomy, but it is appropriate to say that there are also opportunities in other fields. For example, the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope ( WEBT ) organized by two talented colleagues from Turin, Claudia Raiteri and Massimo Villata, also collects contributions from amateur observers. Not to mention the planetary, as I personally experienced when I was dealing with meteors and asteroids. You'll be spoiled for choice!
Happy 2011! Let me point
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