Measurements of Beta Lyrae at the Pine Mountain Observatory Summer Workshop 2011

As part of the Pine Mountain Observatory Summer Workshop 2011, high school and college students joined with an experienced observer to learn the use of a telescope, as- trometric techniques, and measure a double star. This workshop was the first time these students operated a telescope, and, thus, constituted an educational experience for them as they used the telescope and took the measurements. The double star Beta Lyrae was measured resulting in a separation of 44.3 arc seconds and a position angle of 151.6 de- grees. The Washington Double Star catalog (2009 data) lists a separation of 45.4 arc sec- onds and a position angle of 148 degrees