1.   A mixed bag of professional astronomers and amateur enthusiasts attended the conference.

2.   And professional astronomers are doing the same.

3.   Another one, Real Sky CD, brings to the masses the actual survey images of the sky used by professional astronomers.

4.   Because professional astronomers are often too busy with their own research to help verify discoveries, the responsibility invariably falls on experienced amateurs.

5.   But for professional astronomers, Linear held some surprises.

6.   But Prot even dazzles a bunch of professional astronomers with his knowledge of little-known facts about the universe, so maybe ...

7.   Collecting such large amounts of data is something that a professional astronomer, with limited access to big telescopes because of demand and high cost, simply cannot do.

8.   In the world of science, few events bring professional astronomers and curious amateurs together like a total eclipse of the sun.

9.   One of them, Astronomy Village, is an interactive disk that makes it possible to act out the life of a professional astronomer.

10.   Still, professional astronomers are not particularly excited.