Report - School of Physics
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overlap <strong>of</strong> public and research interest. While an outreach effort on extra-solar<br />
planets will be worthwhile in its own right, we expect that an outreach effort centered<br />
around an amateur (public) involvement in science will be much more effective<br />
thanks to its novelty and emotional appeal. In order to get some feedback from the<br />
amateur community directly one <strong>of</strong> us (FK) gave a presentation at the 8 November<br />
2004 meeting <strong>of</strong> the astronomy club ‘Max Valier’ in Bolzano, Italy. The club has<br />
more than 100 members and is well-equipped with an 80 cm telescope and modern<br />
CCDs. Their new observatory at Gummer was built with funds <strong>of</strong> the local government<br />
and is now run as a public observatory (http://www.sternwarte.it) with<br />
an extensive program <strong>of</strong> tours and observing sessions for schools and the general<br />
public. Further details <strong>of</strong> this meeting, and a more detailed proposal for follow-up,<br />
are available.<br />
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