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Having worked your way through the previous chapter you will now know how to obtain images suitable for photometry, calibrate them, and construct a lightcurve. This chapter will direct you to lists of asteroids suitable for lightcurve work and describe ongoing projects to which you can contribute. To quote from a paper to which a number of amateurs contributed, “A substantial part of the photometric data was observed by amateur astronomers. We emphasize the importance of a coordinated network of observers that will be of extreme importance for future all-sky asteroid photometric surveys.”
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Dymock, R. (2010). Lightcurve Photometry Projects. In: Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them. Astronomers' Observing Guides. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6439-7_13
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