Certainly.
We're familiar with the sky. We know what we expect to see there, and that's one of the ways you discover things like supernovas. The youngest member of our society who discovered one, back in 2011, was 10 years old, and then her brother two years later repeated the feat. It's a matter of walking down the path and looking for something that you expect to see and then seeing something like a rock that doesn't belong there. Maybe it's a meteorite, so you go on a nature walk and you take a stick with a magnet on the end. It's getting as many eyes on the sky as you can.
One of the issues in our field is that funding covers the most likely areas where you can find stuff, but there are areas where it's less likely and that they don't want to spend money on, and that's where we spend our time. We search those areas for things. The last near-Earth asteroid that was in the news was discovered by an amateur astronomer. It's definitely the same sort of thing.
We work, as I said, in conjunction with our local naturalists to help them monitor the sky, because the misuse of artificial light at night interferes with migratory patterns and ends up causing a lot of birds to die every year, so we're very concerned about that and happy to help them.