Tuesday Plenary 1: Contributed talk
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Theme: Other creative topics in astronomical software
We report results and key lessons from the development and implementation of “The Daily Minor Planet”, a citizen science project developed by the Catalina Sky Survey using nightly data from our G96 survey telescope and hosted by Zooniverse. The project asks volunteers to review candidate detections of asteroids and distinguish between real and false detections. Key lessons to be covered include what results have revealed about our normal moving object detection pipeline, managing large user bases for optimal results, and statistical methods for analyzing user’s responses and managing discovery bias in users. “The Daily Minor Planet” is live and can be found at: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/fulsdavid/the-daily-minor-planet