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Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of planetary astronomy. Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers are effective and regularly lead to scientific publications.We discuss the instruments, detectors, software and methodologies typically used by amateur astronomers to collect the scientific data in the different domains of interest. Amateur contributions to the monitoring of planets and interplanetary matter, characterization of asteroids and comets, as well as the determination of the physical properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and exoplanets are discussed.

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  1. See http://demeautis.christophe.free.fr/ep/pe.htm

  2. http://www.dfmengineering.com/news_telescope_gearing.html#chart

  3. Defined as a measure of the quality of optical transmission through the atmosphere due to random inhomogeneities in its refractive index. These inhomogeneities are primarily due to tiny variations in density on smaller spatial scales, resulting from random turbulent mixing of larger temperature variations on larger spatial scales.

  4. http://basebe.obspm.fr

  5. http://www.shelyak.com/

  6. http://www.hristopavlov.net/BeeperSync/

  7. see a list in http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/softwarelist.cfm

  8. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/∼mills/ntp.html

  9. http://www.dangl.at/ausruest/vid_tim/vid_tim1.htm

  10. http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=VENUS

  11. http://britastro.org/baa/

  12. http://elvis.rowan.edu/marswatch/news.php

  13. http://www.imo.net/

  14. http://www.sonotaco.com/

  15. http://www.imo.net/visual/report/electronic

  16. http://www.boam.fr/

  17. http://sonotaco.com/soft/e∖_index.html

  18. http://meteor.uwo.ca/%7Eweryk/asgard/

  19. http://www.metrec.org/

  20. http://www.pvol.ehu.es

  21. http://www.imcce.fr/en/ephemerides/

  22. An up to date list is available at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-Cat/txt/max=588132? B/astorb/astorb.dat

  23. Precovery or pre-discovery is the process of finding the image of an object in archived images of the sky obtained prior its discovery.

  24. the catalog of asteroids can be accessed from http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-Cat/txt/max=588132? B/astorb/astorb.datwhiletheephemerisofobjectscanbeobtainedfromhttp: //vo.imcce.fr/webservices/skybot/while the ephemeris of objects can be obtained from http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/skybot/

  25. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/

  26. http://euronear.imcce.fr/tiki-index.php?page=MegaPrecovery

  27. http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/near/main/?&newlang=eng

  28. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/PossNEO.html

  29. http://www.astrometrica.at/

  30. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/ToConfirm.html

  31. http://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/asteroids3D

  32. http://www.minorplanet.info/mpbdownloads.html

  33. http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html

  34. http://www.minorplanet.info/call.html

  35. http://minorplanetcenter.net/light∖_curve

  36. http://www.occultations.org/

  37. by H. Pavlov: http://www.hristopavlov.net/OccultWatcher/OccultWatcher.html

  38. This rough estimate results directly from the prediction of occultation using the currently usual approach (asteroids > 40 km, Hipparcos stars, etc). This estimate can also be confirmed by running through the list of the predicted events.

  39. http://occsec.wellington.net.nz/aboutus.htm

  40. http://www.euraster.net/

  41. http://sbn.psi.edu/pds/resource/occ.html

  42. Standard programs for this task include “Limovie” (http://astro-limovie.info/index.html) and “Tangra” (http://www.hristopavlov.net/Tangra/Tangra.html)

  43. http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/observations/DriftScan/Index.htm

  44. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/MPCORB.html

  45. http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/RecentCBETs.html

  46. Written by C. Berrevoets. Available on: http://www.astronomie.be/registax/

  47. Written by E. Kraaimkap. Available on http://www.autostakkert.com/

  48. Written by G. Hahn. Available on http://jupos.privat.t-online.de/

  49. http://www.pvol.ehu.es/pvol/

  50. http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/indexE.htm

  51. http://www.astrosurf.com/saf/SAF

  52. http://alpo-astronomy.org/ALPO

  53. http://jupos.org

  54. http://comethunter.lamost.org/SOHO/rank.htm

  55. http://www.nightskyhunter.com/index.html

  56. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130330.html

  57. See, e.g., http://www.britastro.org/projectalcock/CCD%20Astrometry%20and%20Photometry.htm for more details.

  58. http://www.imcce.fr/langues/en/

  59. See, e.g., http://www.imcce.fr/fr/ephemerides/donnees/comets/FICH/OMCF0835.php

  60. See, e.g., http://www.observatorij.org/CCDPhot/iwca5.html or http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CCDmags.html

  61. ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/loneos.phot

  62. See, e.g., http://www.aavso.org/sites/default/files/Transforms-Sarty.pdffor more details.

  63. http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/icq.html

  64. See this note on ICQ: http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/ICQFormat.html

  65. http://cara.uai.it/

  66. See, e.g., Comets Mailing List at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/comets-ml/

  67. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/message/27762

  68. The absolute magnitude is the magnitude that an object would have if it were at 1 AU from the Sun, 1 AU from the observer, and seen with a phase angle of 0 . This is a good proxy for the size of an object, H decreasing as the object gets bigger.

  69. A list of these objects is available at http://www.minorplanetcenter.net

  70. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/message/27846

  71. http://www.icehunters.org/

  72. http://www.planethunters.org/

  73. http://cosmoquest.org/

  74. ETD: http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/index.php

  75. AXA: http://brucegary.net/AXA/x.htm

  76. TransitSearch: http://www.transitsearch.org/

  77. AXA: http://brucegary.net/AXA/TransitSearch/TransitSearchLC.htm

  78. http://c-munipack.sourceforge.net/

  79. Available in free download at: http://brucegary.net/book∖_EOA/x.htm

  80. http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/

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Mousis, O., Hueso, R., Beaulieu, JP. et al. Instrumental methods for professional and amateur collaborations in planetary astronomy. Exp Astron 38, 91–191 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-014-9379-0

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