The Time is Ripe!
Abstract
The budgetary dilemma facing the national observatories is briefly touched upon. The question of whether there is an answer to "How am I supposed to work my 15th magnitude subjects without a telescope or, worse, without even access to data?" is on the minds of not just a few students and their advisors. The science that gets done on a big telescope is the same as that which gets done on a small telescope -- it's just as important but it's different. As a professional amateur, I will outline what can be done to help in this time of small-telescope science demise at the national observatories and describe new possibilities in what can become a new era in amateur-professional collaboration. A brief description of past Braeside Observatory efforts and its current collaborative work will be presented.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #190
- Pub Date:
- May 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997AAS...190.2107F