Comment by Brickleberried on 20/07/2022 at 18:03 UTC

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If you want to use your telescope, look into this organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Variable_Star_Observers

Other citizen science projects are usually something you do by looking at data on your computer rather than using a telescope.

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Comment by kftrendy at 21/07/2022 at 16:06 UTC

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Putting in a second vote for AAVSO! Stellar variability is one of our best tools for studying stars and stellar systems, but a lot of phenomena are one-off or widely separated in time, and there are a *lot* of stars out there. Organizations like AAVSO allow for much broader coverage than you could get with just the big observatories - the data isn't as high-quality as you'd get from a fancier telescope, but you cover so much more ground.