Amateur astronomy

Public exhibitions such as Explor'Espace and Ciel & Espace have shown that tools like Astro-COLIBRI can really engage astronomy enthusiasts. We take part in the "amateur–professional" workshop of the Société Astronomique de France (SAF) at the Journées SF2A, in the Fête de la Science at Université Paris-Saclay, in the Ciel & Espace days and more. SAF organised a first Astro-COLIBRI session in February 2022 (link), and Astro-COLIBRI is among the official tools supported by the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO).

A very practical example is the collaboration between Astro-COLIBRI and the Unistellar citizen-science programme on "cosmic cataclysms". Astro-COLIBRI distributes alerts on interesting events detected by the ZTF observatory that are within reach of the digital Unistellar telescopes. A dedicated link in the app starts a follow-up observation with an eVscope or eQuinox telescope, with all crucial parameters set automatically. Data analysis and publications are handled together with the SETI Institute.

Exchanges between amateur astronomers and with the Astro-COLIBRI team take place on our discussion forum.