CCD Photometry of Variable Stars in a Sophomore Level Astronomy Laboratory

Volume 22 number 1 (1993)

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Horace A. Smith
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824

Abstract

At Michigan state University CCD photometry of RR Lyrae variable stars has been made an important part of a sophomore-level laboratory course for physics and astrophysics majors.