Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Reviewing scientific proposals and researching papers.
• Presenting researching findings at scientific conferences and in papers written for scientific journals.
• Developing theories based on personal observations or on observations and theories of other astronomers.
• Collaborating with other astronomers for carrying out researching projects.
• Developing instrumentation and software for astronomical observation and analysis.
• Teaching astronomy or astrophysics.
• Developing and modifying astronomy related programs for public presentation.
• Directing the operations of a planetarium.