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Participation of Amateur Astronomers in Solar Flare Observing Campaign within the F-CHROMA Project

Arkadiusz Berlicki (Astronomical Institute, University of Wroclaw)

Abstract. F-CHROMA is a collaborative project funded under the EU-Framework Programe 7, involving seven different European research Institutes and Universities. The goal of F-CHROMA is to substantially advance our understanding of the physics of solar flares, with a particular focus on their chromospheric parts. A crucial component of F-CHROMA will be the dissemination effort to make results of these activities available to and usable by the community, including non-professional astronomers. An important task in our dissemination plan is to involve amateur solar observers in our flare observing campaigns. Amateur astronomers can provide the observational data, which we believe to be of genuine scientific values. We hope that this activity might also start a closer cooperation between amateur and professional solar physicists during the project realization and beyond. The first pro-am solar flare “F-HUNTERS” observing campaign will be organized on September 19-27th, 2015. There are many professional ground-based and space observatories involved in the campaign and we hope to obtain a complementary results from amateur astronomers. Here we will present the preliminary output of this campaign.

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