I’m a big fan of Cosmoquest and their online star parties held via Google Hangout. Then a while back I learned about their efforts to crowd source lunar crater mapping, and best of all it required no experience OR actual understanding of astronomy 🙂 So I signed up and did a little mapping off and on.

I was excited to see this article by the Bad Astronomer in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/16/moon_mappers_citizen_scientists_count_craters_like_the_pros.html

I love when science is accessible even to those of us who have no real knowledge, but have a real interest in it. How cool is that?