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RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory
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]] RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory is an Indian citizen science research platform in astronomy. It was launched by its Principal Investigator, Dr. Ananda Hota in April 2013 as a "zero-funded, zero-infrastructure, human-resource network" based in based on Google's gmail and Facebook group activities. As per its tag-line Any BSc/BE Can Do Research ( #ABCDresearch ) any student enrolled in any Indian University in science-stream or any Indian citizen passed out from any University with minimum of BSc/BE/BTech degree can join the Collaboration, free of cost, at the entry level of its official Facebook group. This Facebook is used for image analyses discussion and Gmail is used formal communication and Google Doc is used for formal documentations on the new-found objects in the sky. Over 4400 citizens have joined the Facebook group for learning multi-wavelength (X-ray, UV, Optical, IR and radio) Red-Green-Blue-contour image analyses of galaxies and radio galaxies using NASA Skyview. Images made by the group are often hashtagged as #RGBviaNASAnRADatHomeIndia for complete acknowledgement to the web-tool used and method used. Based on this Facebook discussion, citizens are selected for one week-long advanced training to discover from GMRT data using SAO ds9 FITS image viewer.

Along with this online activity, several face-to-face citizen science research training workshops, known as "RAD@home Discovery Camps" and "One Day RAD@home Astronomy Workshops" (ODRAW), have been hosted, with financial and infrastructural supports, by reputed research and educational institutes all over India. Names of these institutes include International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru), Institute of Physics (IoP, Bhubaneswar), UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS, Mumbai), Harishchandra Research Institute (HRI, Allahabad), Nehru Planetarium (NMML, New Delhi), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER, Kolkata & Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Berhampur, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER, Bhubaneswar), Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bengaluru), Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi), St. Stephens College (Delhi), Vigyan Prasar (DST, Govt of India), Square Kilometre Array-weeks of the Vigyan Samagam (hosted by DAE, DST, NCSM, Govt. of India) in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata & Delhi etc. After these training Camps/Workshops participants continue to discover from their respective homes and discuss their new-found-objects in the Facebook group created for trained-citizen scientists known as e-astronomers  . This is how, over the years, it has grown to become a successful nationwide Inter-University Collaboratory of trained citizen-scientists, professional astronomers and leading institutional facilitators  . The collaboratory primarily focuses on making discoveries from the new and sensitive TIFR GMRT Sky Survey data at 150 MHz and follow them up with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, a SKA pathfinder, through the ongoing GMRT Time Allocation Committee-approved project GMRT Observation of Objects Discovered by RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory(GOOD-RAC).