Science Powered by Citizens

A sounding board for our volunteers to discuss anything related to Citizen Science / Do-it-Ourselves Projects, and Further Learning Resources

69 conversations

• New images for Galaxy Zoo from GAMA-KiDS! Jan 30,2017

  9 posts / 6 participants

  Last post December 4, 2017 4:46 PM by TheAardvark2

• Is it a supernova? Check transients with Aladin

  8 posts / 3 participants

  Last post October 12, 2017 4:34 PM by Konk

• The future of Galaxy Zoo in LSST, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

  7 posts / 4 participants

  Last post January 13, 2017 5:16 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• The hunt for Blue Caterpillars aka BBOs (Blue Blob Objects)

  26 posts / 8 participants

  Last post March 23, 2017 8:32 PM by harrisrej

• NPLB Project - Pixelmetric search for Voorwerpjes

  97 posts / 7 participants

  Last post July 31, 2018 6:06 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• project ZOA

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post May 21, 2018 9:43 PM by victor_muteti

• Unreported supernova #SNe

  74 posts / 8 participants

  Last post March 6, 2018 12:30 PM by wouterretuow

• Selecting MaNGA disk galaxies with GZ2 classifications

  13 posts / 2 participants

  Last post February 23, 2018 7:34 AM by mlpeck

• The Blue-Red Pills Thread (BRP)

  88 posts / 3 participants

  Last post February 19, 2018 8:03 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• Modeling disk galaxy rotation curves with MaNGA and Stan

  16 posts / 4 participants

  Last post January 25, 2018 5:31 PM by mlpeck

• Speedy Zooniverse project (Magellanic clouds)

  8 posts / 2 participants

  Last post January 9, 2018 4:25 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• The future of the LSST & CitSci & Zooniverse

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post December 19, 2017 6:35 AM by Budgieye

• Aladin Desktop problem

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post December 7, 2017 11:28 AM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• Galaxies without SDSS (or any other!) names

  14 posts / 6 participants

  Last post November 8, 2017 9:50 PM by JeanTate

• Nucleated Dwarf Galaxies

  19 posts / 4 participants

  Last post November 8, 2017 7:53 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• The Masters et al. "passive red spirals" in MaNGA 1st data release

  9 posts / 2 participants

  Last post September 26, 2017 4:21 PM by mlpeck

• Apparent brightness / photometric calibration

  8 posts / 4 participants

  Last post August 27, 2017 4:04 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• Introducing the 100th Zooniverse Project: Galaxy Nurseries

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post June 1, 2017 9:22 AM by Budgieye

• VRGalaxies - virtual reality app based on NASA´s NEARGALCAT

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post May 29, 2017 4:43 PM by vrgalaxies

• Starburst?

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post May 9, 2017 8:19 PM by zoob1172

• Talk by Dr. Karen Masters

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post April 17, 2017 10:11 PM by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

• Few ideas to improve Galaxy Zoo

  posts / 1 participants

  Last post April 3, 2017 4:32 AM by Overene

• Planet Nine , Planet X

  38 posts / 6 participants

  Last post March 31, 2017 7:31 AM by Budgieye

• New Dim Red Objects Dec 10 2016

  3 posts / 2 participants

  Last post January 8, 2017 12:48 PM by Budgieye

• Weirdest spectra (continued from GZ , enhanced by DR12 boss spectra)

  4 posts / 4 participants

  Last post November 24, 2016 4:15 PM by zutopian

• MANGA targeting?

  32 posts / 5 participants

  Last post October 7, 2016 10:06 AM by klmasters

• SDSS J085354.49+350900.5, the one that got away ...

  5 posts / 4 participants

  Last post September 1, 2016 12:05 AM by zutopian

• Citizen scientists in The Netherlands

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post June 28, 2016 12:50 PM by Marrieja

• galaxy off left center.

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post May 15, 2016 3:55 PM by Budgieye

• Suggesting a way to see if you were the first person to view a galaxy

  6 posts / 4 participants

  Last post April 25, 2016 7:03 AM by Budgieye

• Magnetic fields in space - a course that costs money

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post April 21, 2016 8:09 AM by Budgieye

• A crazy idea for the science team

  18 posts / 5 participants

  Last post April 18, 2016 12:42 PM by JeanTate

• Is Citizen Science Ethical?

  61 posts / 9 participants

  Last post March 25, 2016 1:10 PM by Capella05

• Thread to discuss "Ideas for Citizen Science in Astronomy" (Marshall+ 2014)

  22 posts / 4 participants

  Last post March 2, 2016 6:00 PM by zutopian

• Status and future of Letters, and other Zooniverse support for zooites' independent research?

  58 posts / 10 participants

  Last post March 2, 2016 5:55 PM by zutopian

• New Science Journal

  5 posts / 3 participants

  Last post February 28, 2016 11:34 AM by zutopian

• Transient objects from SDSS: Near earth objects (NEO) asteroids and high orbit spacecrafts (above geosync) #satellitetrail

  14 posts / 6 participants

  Last post February 6, 2016 6:51 AM by Budgieye

• potential gravitational lens

  4 posts / 3 participants

  Last post January 2, 2016 4:48 AM by Budgieye

• Wikipedia and Citizen Science.

  66 posts / 11 participants

  Last post December 29, 2015 1:50 PM by Rick_Nowell

• 'Favourites' dataset?

  12 posts / 4 participants

  Last post November 26, 2015 7:23 PM by zutopian

• Proposal for new examine button

  3 posts / 2 participants

  Last post November 10, 2015 10:10 PM by Ghost Sheep SWR

• On the discovery and precovery of Trans-Neptunian Objects from SDSS images

  92 posts / 7 participants

  Last post August 7, 2015 1:10 AM by planetaryscience

• Graduate Research Survey: Demographics of Zooniverse Space Science Projects

  12 posts / 5 participants

  Last post August 4, 2015 1:12 PM by vrooje

• Stormwatch papers both now readable online

  2 posts / 2 participants

  Last post April 29, 2015 5:21 PM by ElisabethB

• Extremely unusual green host+very large EELR ('Voorwerpje") and a triple radio source as well

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post April 10, 2015 1:47 AM by JeanTate

• How to 'unpack' the Schawinski+ (2010) FITS?

  9 posts / 4 participants

  Last post March 28, 2015 5:56 PM by vrooje

• Guardian article about citizen science

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post March 11, 2015 1:08 AM by Budgieye

• Automating the saving of SDSS images - can any reader help please?

  7 posts / 3 participants

  Last post March 8, 2015 7:23 AM by JeanTate

• Pair Galaxy Interactions, tidally triggered star formation

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post January 15, 2015 10:54 AM by c_cld

• "Green sabres" - how easy is it to identify green satellite trails, from PhotoObj parameter values?

  19 posts / 6 participants

  Last post January 15, 2015 9:04 AM by C_cld

• Star K5 (sample of binaries and triplet )

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post January 14, 2015 5:48 PM by c_cld

• An Asteroid's spectrum?

  3 posts / 2 participants

  Last post January 6, 2015 3:21 PM by C_cld

• galaxy orientation data set

  6 posts / 3 participants

  Last post December 7, 2014 12:24 PM by Budgieye

• The Language of Galaxy Zoo

  62 posts / 12 participants

  Last post December 6, 2014 4:29 PM by Rick N.

• Dark Galaxies

  55 posts / 9 participants

  Last post November 17, 2014 8:47 PM by wtaskew

• Question about Image quality

  2 posts / 2 participants

  Last post November 10, 2014 3:27 AM by vrooje

• Free online course – Philosophy and the Sciences

  4 posts / 2 participants

  Last post November 4, 2014 2:51 PM by JeanTate

• Description changed for this board

  4 posts / 2 participants

  Last post October 17, 2014 5:32 PM by ElisabethB

• Shared learning: Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy

  13 posts / 5 participants

  Last post October 7, 2014 4:35 PM by mlpeck

• Citizen Science and Erdos numbers

  2 posts / 2 participants

  Last post October 6, 2014 3:21 PM by JeanTate

• A study on galactic morphology and evolution

  13 posts / 6 participants

  Last post September 18, 2014 9:55 AM by zookeeper

• Science Policy Issues

  15 posts / 7 participants

  Last post September 10, 2014 3:37 PM by Capella05

• A citizen science bibliography

  2 posts / 2 participants

  Last post August 22, 2014 9:32 AM by Rick N.

• galactic redshift and size

  3 posts / 2 participants

  Last post August 20, 2014 4:26 PM by planetaryscience

• Object of The Day Board?

  11 posts / 6 participants

  Last post July 22, 2014 5:14 PM by Capella05

• Zooites' own projects/research

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post July 19, 2014 12:34 PM by JeanTate

• NGC objects - Collections

  9 posts / 3 participants

  Last post July 14, 2014 9:32 AM by klmasters

• Galaxy Morphology: Human concept of shape wrong approach? New paper

  4 posts / 3 participants

  Last post July 11, 2014 4:12 PM by Peter Dzwig

• Thanks for this

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post July 11, 2014 12:08 AM by JeanTate