1) Professional Astronomers
Professional Astronomers are Astronomers who are already well versed in the field, they study Astronomy through formal education in their lectures. Professional astronomers will study one object for years even to the end of their lives. In the 20th century, professional astronomy was divided into two branches: observational astronomy and theoretical astronomy. The first involves collecting data from observations of celestial objects, which will then be analyzed using the basic principles of physics. The second focuses on developing computer / analytical models to explain the properties of celestial bodies and other natural phenomena. The two branches are complementary. theoretical astronomy attempts to explain observational observations of astronomy, and observational astronomy will then try to prove conclusions made by theoretical astronomy. But for professional astronomers, celestial observations using telescopes in observatories or even space shuttle telescopes cannot be done every day for just one object. Usually these astronomers submit proposals asking for the best time for observing one object which is only a few days a year. as well as professional astronomers from Indonesia Prof. Dr. Bambang Hidayat used to spend 200 nights a year observing, and studying several objects of the night sky.
Professional Astronomers are Astronomers who are already well versed in the field, they study Astronomy through formal education in their lectures. Professional astronomers will study one object for years even to the end of their lives. In the 20th century, professional astronomy was divided into two branches: observational astronomy and theoretical astronomy. The first involves collecting data from observations of celestial objects, which will then be analyzed using the basic principles of physics. The second focuses on developing computer / analytical models to explain the properties of celestial bodies and other natural phenomena. The two branches are complementary. theoretical astronomy attempts to explain observational observations of astronomy, and observational astronomy will then try to prove conclusions made by theoretical astronomy. But for professional astronomers, celestial observations using telescopes in observatories or even space shuttle telescopes cannot be done every day for just one object. Usually these astronomers submit proposals asking for the best time for observing one object which is only a few days a year. as well as professional astronomers from Indonesia Prof. Dr. Bambang Hidayat used to spend 200 nights a year observing, and studying several objects of the night sky.
There are things that distinguish astronomers from scientists in other fields of knowledge. Astronomers cannot touch objects that are the object of their research because they are very far away from being able to experiment with them. But there is a liaison between astronomers and astronomical objects, namely in the form of a beam of energy. The task of astronomers is to process and interpret information carried by the emission of energy from these astronomical objects.
2) Amateur astronomers.
Amateur astronomers are the name for people who like astronomy based on love and hobbies. They do not make their activities in Astronomy a source the coming of sustenance or income. They spend their time in the midst of their busy life. Anyone can become an amateur astronomer. Those who become amateur astronomers usually aim more at observing celestial objects without the help of astronomical instruments in their activities ranging from telescopes to hundreds of thousands, to tens of millions. That is why this hobby can be called an "expensive hobby" in Indonesia there are enough communities and clubs that become a gathering place for amateur astronomers to share astronomy around the observatory results.
The existence of astronomy among people wherever they are has the same goal of wanting to popularize Astronomy among the public from children to adults.
Amateur astronomy itself is usually associated with the word night observation, because most of them see star at night, starting from planetary observations or other astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers. But there are also those who observe stars during the day, the star is the Sun. Observing the sun more closely is also very interesting for amateur astronomers because we can see that the sun is not as smooth as we imagined or we see it, the sun has sunspots or internationally known as sunspot. And what is now popular with amateur astronomers is astrophotography, which is sky photography night, there are those who photograph the Milky Way galaxy, the planet, the moon to the meteor shower and there are also those who take photos of DSO (Deep Sky Objects) such as galaxy nebulae, neighboring clusters etc. In activities that amateur astronomers do they also have a role or role in keastronomian that exists today, many amateur astronomers can find new things in the world of astronomy ranging from asteroid discoveries to supernovas and that is very helpful especially for professional astronomers. For example, Anthony Wesley, who managed to observe and find an asteroid collision that was justified in 2009, Richard Miles, the inventor of the 2008 Hi Pasteorid, turned pretty fast in 2008, Gannady Borisov who discovered the comet only on July 8 2013. And also a project involving 10,000 amateur astronomers and professional astronomers who managed to find 2 million new objects that have not been identified such as star cluster nebulae, new stars, galaxies, super nova etc. One of my idol amateur astronomers is Oskha Liza . And Alessandro Bianconi.
Amateur astronomers are the name for people who like astronomy based on love and hobbies. They do not make their activities in Astronomy a source the coming of sustenance or income. They spend their time in the midst of their busy life. Anyone can become an amateur astronomer. Those who become amateur astronomers usually aim more at observing celestial objects without the help of astronomical instruments in their activities ranging from telescopes to hundreds of thousands, to tens of millions. That is why this hobby can be called an "expensive hobby" in Indonesia there are enough communities and clubs that become a gathering place for amateur astronomers to share astronomy around the observatory results.
The existence of astronomy among people wherever they are has the same goal of wanting to popularize Astronomy among the public from children to adults.
Amateur astronomy itself is usually associated with the word night observation, because most of them see star at night, starting from planetary observations or other astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers. But there are also those who observe stars during the day, the star is the Sun. Observing the sun more closely is also very interesting for amateur astronomers because we can see that the sun is not as smooth as we imagined or we see it, the sun has sunspots or internationally known as sunspot. And what is now popular with amateur astronomers is astrophotography, which is sky photography night, there are those who photograph the Milky Way galaxy, the planet, the moon to the meteor shower and there are also those who take photos of DSO (Deep Sky Objects) such as galaxy nebulae, neighboring clusters etc. In activities that amateur astronomers do they also have a role or role in keastronomian that exists today, many amateur astronomers can find new things in the world of astronomy ranging from asteroid discoveries to supernovas and that is very helpful especially for professional astronomers. For example, Anthony Wesley, who managed to observe and find an asteroid collision that was justified in 2009, Richard Miles, the inventor of the 2008 Hi Pasteorid, turned pretty fast in 2008, Gannady Borisov who discovered the comet only on July 8 2013. And also a project involving 10,000 amateur astronomers and professional astronomers who managed to find 2 million new objects that have not been identified such as star cluster nebulae, new stars, galaxies, super nova etc. One of my idol amateur astronomers is Oskha Liza . And Alessandro Bianconi.
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