Pro-Am Astronomy www.astro-pro-am.org

A concept for an on-line platform for scientific collaborations

between amateur and professional astronomers.

Pedro Russo

russo@strw.leidenuniv.nl

Vision

An on-line platform to foster the collaboration between

professional and amateur astronomers.

Bring them together to make sense of the Universe

through collaborations and data share.

A shared space and free resource to help the communities

to achieve this goal.

Goals

To increase the collaborations between professional

and amateurs astronomers as well as other astronomy

enthusiasts.

To foster pro-am collaborations.

To raise awareness of the results coming from pro-am

collaborations.

To provide standards to pro-am collaborations.

Sitemap #1

• About

– Team

– Why are we doing this?

• News

– Including latest papers published in the framework of pro-am

collaboration

• PRO-AM Projects

– Current PRO-AM projects

– Past PRO-AM projects

– Submit a new project

Sitemap #2

• Scientific Data

– Request data

– Submit/Share data

– Explore existing data

• Resources

– The scientific process

– Standards in astronomy

– How-to guides

• Equipment

• Software

– Types of data

• Images

• Spectroscopy

• Radio

Sitemap #3

• Partners

– List amateurs or amateur societies involved sorted by region/country

– List Institutes and pro astronomers involved sorted by region/country

• Links

• Contacts

Inspiration

Inspiration

Timelime

July:

JENAM2011:

• Public discussion

• Establishment of a Steering Committee

July - August

• Roadmap definition

• First design mock-up

September - November

• Recruiting editor (September)

• Web-development

Timelime

December

• Website beta version

January 2012

• Official release: AAS 219th Meeting — 08-12 January 2012

Austin, TX

August 2012

• IAU GA: First review meeting

List of Pro-Am projects

Open Google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uJIVVRveQB6SUvIpu_fnT4Ei-

yQ4IGaMTM6NPOgbM78/edit?hl=en_GB