Find the Cepheids! Now you're ready to do your own Cepheid hunt. Follow the procedure you learned in the previous section ("A demonstration of the Cepheid hunt"). You are to find 10 Cepheids, including the Cepheid in the demonstration example. There are 26 known Cepheids in all of WF4.

Click on either of the images below to begin your hunt. Only grid sections with numbers are currently available. You may have to enable popups to get the worksheet to open. Just enable popups and click the refresh button. You can also click "Find the Cepheids!" to open the lab. Have fun!

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