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Contributions of `citizen science' to occultation astronomy

Beisker, Wolfgang; Guhl, Konrad; Midavaine, Thierry

The modern term `citizen science' describes a very old tradition in the natural sciences. Until the specialization of the sciences at the end of the eighteenth century, the emergence of technical universities and the formation of a modern scientific enterprise, citizen science was the norm. Since the 1960s, amateur astronomers have increasingly ob…