The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) is a citizen science program. It provides high quality astronomical data to citizen scientists around the world. They are able to make original astronomical discoveries and participate in hands-on astronomy.
This service is provided at no cost!
Congratulations to the students of the National Dali Senior High School (Taiwan)! In 2014, these students discovered the trans-Neptunian object 2014 GE45. This is a large 200-km ball of ice and rock located at an average distance of 56 AU from the Sun, out past the orbit of Pluto. Through the International Astronomical Union, it has been officially named Zhulong by the students at the school.
Team members from Panama who participated in the May All Panama Asteroid Search Campaign
The Astrohunt team from Bangladesh who participated in the April International Asteroid Search Campaign
Members of Călin Popovici Astroclub - Galați from Romania who participated in the April Global Astronomy Month AWB Asteroid Search Campaign
Team members of Team Olympus from India who participated in the April International Asteroid Search Campaign
Team members of Afagh Rahbar Azarbaijan from Iran who participate in the International Asteroid Search Campaigns
Welcome to the International Astronomical Search Collaboration! (IASC = "Isaac")
The All India Asteroid Search Campaign, All Iran Asteroid Search Campaign, and International Asteroid Search Campaign
are now underway. Happy Hunting!
It is important that you understand how to use Astrometrica, identify true and false signatures (i.e., not all moving things are asteroids), and prepare a clean and accurate MPC report. If you can do these things, your citizen science group will be successful in discovering new Main Belt asteroids and making important near-Earth object observations.
| Start Date | End Date | Campaign Name | |
| Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Monday, August 10, 2020 | Ciência em Casa - MCTI Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | All Bolivia Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | All Colombia Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | All Nepal Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | International Asteroid Search Campaign | FULL |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | DST - Rajasthan Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | SEDS India Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | SEDS Sri Lanka Asteroid Search Campaign | |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | Spaceport India Asteroid Search Campaign |
If your citizen science group would like to participate in an IASC search campaign contact the IASC Coordinator, Mrs. Cassidy Davis by email at: iascsearch@hsutx.edu.
Campaigns usually fill up 30 days prior to their starting date.
IASC (pronounced "Isaac") is a collaboration of:
