Monitoring Bright Pulsating Variable Stars with a 6-inch Telescope

The Brigham Young University Orson Pratt Observatory has a number of small robotic telescopes. A new six-inch telescope has been installed and has been programmed to collect data on various variable stars. In order to best use this telescope, data on a series of stars varying in magnitude has been collected, reduced, and compared with other observations to determine the effectiveness of the telescope in working with a specific range of stars. A number of these pulsating and eclipsing variable stars will be presented.