Project reports should contain the same information as in the proposal, augmented by the actual experience of doing the project, and, of course, the results. The format is parallel to that of a published astronomical research paper. Project writeups should be from 4-6 double-spaced, single-sided pages, not including references, tables or figures. Organize the report into these sections:

• Introduction, containing the motivation and background for the project.
• Observations and Data Reduction, describing the steps you took to acquire and analyze your data. This should be sufficiently detailed so that a reader can follow your observing and analysis procedures, but not so minute-by-minute or keystroke-by-keystroke that the reader feels like he/she IS actually experiencing all your hours of toil! Be sure to include a table of your observations, giving observing-log type information: date, weather conditions, object, telescope, filter, exposure time, observers.
• Results and Discussion, where you describe what you actually observed, the results you extracted from your data, how this compares with what you expected, problems you encountered and how you dealt with them.
• Conclusions, in which you evaluate the project as a whole, including any changes you would make if you were starting over, what you would do differently along the way, and what the next steps might be if someone were to continue the project.
• References, including books, the course packet, web resources, etc.