The Europlanet Society has organized a series of workshops and meetings dedicated to outreach and best practice. During 2018 (July 2 and 3) they organized the workshop “Touching the Planets, Evaluating Excellence” in Athens. The goal of this particular workshop was the demonstration of a toolkit (Europlanet Evaluation Toolkit) appropriate…
During the 2019 EPSC-DPS joint meeting we had the unique opportunity to present our results from evaluating an outreach / pro-am series of seminars entitled “Introduction to Observational Astronomy” which we carried out in 2018 and 2019. More details follow: Evaluating introductory seminars on observational astronomy, using the Europlanet Evaluation…
Introduction During the winter season of 2018-2019 (when the weather conditions are not favorable for observations) we organized a series of seminars entitled “Introduction to Observational Astronomy”. The goal of these seminars was to introduce interested individuals to the aspects of the observational techniques for scientifically useful observations, i.e. how…
The Hellenic Astronomical conference is the biennial meeting of the Greek professional astronomers’ society. During the 11th version of this conference (held in Athens, Sep. 8-12, 2013), we contributed with a poster presentation on the need of pro-am collaborations for Jupiter and Saturn. In particular: “The need for Professional-Amateur collaborations…
This work is a collective presentation of the type of contributions within the professional-amateur framework for the study of gaseous giants. In particular: The need for Professional-Amateur collaborations in studies of Jupiter and Saturn Emmanuel Kardasis, John H. Rogers, Glenn Orton, Marc Delcroix, Apostolos Christou, Mike Foulkes, Padma Yanamandra-Fisher, Michel…
