Chelen Johnson
Investigtating Moving-group Photometry and Understanding Lightcurve Structures (IMPULS) will be studying rotation rates of stars in the young nearby Beta Pic Moving Group.
NITARP is the best professional development (PD) program I have participated in and I have participated in many PD programs.
I didn’t know just how much data is publicly available. Anyone can do astronomy – you just need to come up with a question and figure out how to use the archives.
In its current form, anyone with moderate computer skills and high school physics can download, explore, and begin to understand available data.
