These are examples of cosmic ray hits on the CCD/detector. Cosmic rays are typically charged particles or very energetic gamma rays. When they impact the detector the generate electrons (like [...]

Any straight (sometimes slightly wiggly) lines are typically satellites.  They can be much brighter and if you look through other data on LCO you will find many more. Since we [...]

For these, you can use SIMBAD to find potentially interesting young stars in the clusters and the look up their light curve in our database. There is no need to [...]

You should pick one of the HOYS target regions from the list on the website and use these coordinates for the pointing of the telescope. And you should take 3 [...]