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How you can use your Unistellar telescope for the greater good.
- Unistellar’s citizen science network lets hobbyists help with planetary defense and other astronomy tasks.
- Observers use Unistellar devices to record asteroid occultations, exoplanet transits, and satellite tracking for science.
- Data from citizen scientists is submitted to a professional database at the SETI Institute.
- The network aims to make astronomy participation accessible beyond large observatories.
- Future plans include partnerships and tokenization to reward citizen scientists.
- Citizen scientists can gain acknowledgment or authorship if observations contribute to papers.
- Unistellar's devices support a range of models, including Odyssey, eVscope 2, and eQuinox 2.
- The program mirrors distributed computing models to broaden data collection.
- The article highlights the role of citizen science in observing interstellar objects like comet 3I/Atlas.
- The piece notes urban observers can still contribute depending on local sky conditions.
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