Acknowledgements: I would like to thank my teacher, Mr. TK O'Neill, and my parents for making this project possible. I would also like to thank Diffraction Limited Software for a generous discount on their program MaxIM DL. I would like to thank Paul Howell, my neighbor and an astronomy graduate student at Boston University, for his helpful suggestions.


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