Volume 38 number 2 (2010)
(Abstract only) After you have learned the basics of using your CCD camera, you still need to learn the techniques necessary for quality photometry. This paper covers the basic essentials: choosing the correct aperture size, improving the precision of your measures, learning about signal/noise, defects like saturation, clouds and scintillation, beginning differential photometry, paying attention to the time of an observation, and transformation. Practical examples are given throughout.