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Here are the notes about the equipment
 | Cumberland Obervatory is in West Lafayette, Indiana on the grounds of Cumberland
Elementary School. This Purdue facility is used by Astronomy classes as well as
Astronomy research. It is run by Wabash Astronomical Society |
| The telescope is a Meade LX200 16 inch. |
| The CCD Camera is a SBI CCD model ST-6. It employs a color
wheel along with the CCDOPS software that runs on a 486 33MHz PC in DOS mode. |
| The imaging software is Macintosh Astronomical Image Analysis or MAIA. By using
MAIA we are able to determine the relative magnitude of Mkn 421 compared to nearby stars. |
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