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Surf these sites:
American Association Of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) -- Professional and Amateur collection, research, and analysis of variable star observations.
Center for Backyard Astrophysics -- A global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variable stars.
International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) -- was established to encourage and facilitate the observation of occultations and eclipses. It provides predictions for grazing occultations of stars by the Moon and predictions for occultations of stars by asteroids and planets, information on observing equipment and techniques, and reports to the members of observations made.
Spectrashift.com -- The first website dedicated to amateur radial velocity studies. This site gives info on spectrograph construction, software processing, data examples and more.
The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) -- This project hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras and distribute them to sites around the world. The idea is to monitor for bright objects across a large section of the sky.
The Puckett Observatory -- specializes in photographing comets and deep sky objects, and searching for supernovae. Also home of a comet watch and comet astrometry program.

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