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Teaching with the UMBC telescope

Goal
Develop the mental tools to use "professional" telescopes

Method
Learn through experience

Required Learning (or teaching)
  1. Telescope operation
  2. Detector operation
  3. Processing the data
    • The steps involved (theoretical)
    • Implementing the procedures (programming/software environment)

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