Synergy between professional and amateur astronomers

Abstract

Since the CCD technique became financially reachable for amateur astronomers, they can cover topics of professional science. Mainly in the time-domain astronomy, such as variable star research, their help is invaluable. We focus on cooperation between amateur and professional astronomers in the Czech Republic, give some examples of successful projects and propose new programs that can benefit from such cooperation and bring high-quality results.

5 pages, 2 figures. Published in proceedings to Observing techniques, instrumentation and science for metre-class telescopes II, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, September 24-28, 2018