... K.¹

Data meticulously gathered by fellow astronomer James McBride.

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...flux_eqn.²

$N$ is the number of photons, $t$ is time, $h$ is Planck's constant, $\nu$ is the frequency of the photon of interest, $A$ is the collective area of the telescope, $\eta_{\nu}$ is the efficiency of our telescope at a specific frequency, and $\Delta\nu$ is the range at which our efficiency is valid over.

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... Earth.³

Note that RA does not exactly follow the same time as local standard times on the Earth due to the fact that the Earth's revolution around the Sun causes the solar day to be less than a ``celestial day.'' More information about astronomical coordinates can be found in the ``Astronomical Coordinates'' handout by James Graham.

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... altitude.⁴

More information about this process can be found on the ``Spherical Coordinate Transformation'' handout by Carl Heiles.

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... Handout⁵

by James Graham

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...error_mag.⁶

From James Graham's Powerpoint presentation on Statistics.

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... points.⁷

$F_{N}$ is the signal from the star, $N_{1}$ is the number of pixels contained in our aperture, $N_{23}$ is the number of pixels contained in our annulus, $B_{i}$ is the sky brightness, $I_{i}$ is the dark current, and $\sigma_{RO}^{2}$ is the readout noise.

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