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Farm Cove Observatory takes part in Cataclysmic Variable Star (CV) research for the Center for Backyard Astrophysics and is also known as '''CBA Pakuranga'''. Up to January 2006, FCO has contributed over 1300 hours of data to the CBA, and the data from this observatory has been used in a number of scientific papers {Link without Title} . In April 2004 Farm Cove Observatory joined the MicroFUN collaboration {Link without Title} headed by Professor Andrew Gould at Ohio State University . The mission of MicroFUN is to obtain intense photometric monitoring of '''high magnification Gravitational Microlensing ''' events in the hope of detecting planets orbiting the lensing Star . Most of these events are found in the dense star fields of the bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy . The first success came in April 2005 when an and lies some 15,000 Light-years toward the Galactic Bulge . This was only the second exoplanet detected by this technique and the first exoplanet discovery involving amateur observations. Recently, FCO has been contributing unfiltered magnitude measures to the British Astronomical Association campaign on Blazar OJ+287. EXTERNAL LINKS
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