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DoubleSTARS seminar – Starts February 17

Do astronomical research and write your first scientific paper for publication. Each Wednesday night at 8:00 we will have a Zoom class until April 21. Present your results on May 15. Get published by the end of the year. To join the spring DoubleSTARS seminar, please sign up NOW for STEP 1, IntroSTARS, on the Seminars page.

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Fall Python Course – Sign Up Now

Our Python for Astronomy short (5-week) course will start soon. It is time to sign up now. The flyer is here and you can go to our Seminars section for more information. Register at our Python for Astronomy page or click here for the flyer.

New Exoplorer Seminar – January 6 – Sign Up Now

Our new seminar to become an exoplanet observer and learn photometry will start on January 6 and end on February 10. We'll have weekly meetings on Zoom. You will learn about exoplanets through the new Harvard / Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics DIY Exoplanets...

It’s Time to Start IntroSTARS – It’s FREE

Now is the perfect time to start IntroSTARS. Learn basic astronomy in our self-paced online course that can be done in one or two weeks. If you like it, you can go on to DoubleSTARS, exoplanets, and much more astronomy and become a published author of scientific...

TESS observation paper just published

Jeremy Ha authored Guidelines for TESS Aperture Photometry via AstroImageJ based on his experience analyzing early TESS observations from Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) using the OSS Pipeline and AIJ. The Astronomy Theory, Observations and Methods Journal (ATOM), June...

DoubleSTARS™ Fall Seminar – Starts September 9

The Fall 2020 DoubleSTARS™ Seminar will begin at 8:00 PM on 9//9/2020 with an online Zoom meeting. All students who have passed the IntroSTARS™ Quiz will receive the invitation. The Quiz will be sent two weeks earlier with answers due before the first...

IntroSTARS™ – Free / Self-Paced – Sign Up Anytime

BRIEF is now offering its IntroSTARS™ online course for the astrophysics fundamentals needed to enroll in all Boyce-Astro seminars and programs. You can sign up right now and then join DoubleSTARS™ or Introduction to Photometry and Exoplanets when they...

Introduction to Photometry and Exoplanets – January 8th

This Intro course is self-paced and FREE. It gets you started on photometry and observing exoplanets. By the end in March you will be able to do observations and even post them to online science databases. We provide the telescopes, software, and training. We'll start...

BRIEF / UNT Collaboration

BRIEF has provided its 0.5m CDK telescope and hosting at the Dark Skies Observatory in Texas to create a collaboration with the University of North Texas and the University of Dallas (UD). BRIEF currently has half-time use of this new remote observatory, BADSCAC, for...

Student Papers Published at JDSO

Congratulations to our DoubleSTARSTM students who were just published in the Journal of Double Star Observations on April 1st. They are super examples of good student scientific work. Please give our new authors a round of applause. They worked hard to achieve their...