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\subsection{Regular encounters with "real" data and observatory archives}  \label{sec:encounters-with-data}  Lab exercises in AST 208 AST~208  are created with the goal of yielding an authentic research experience for students. Our redesigned labs are therefore built around real data, accessed from astronomical archives and the \href{http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro/observ/}{MSU Observatory}, just as professional astronomers do. The data are not ``sanitized'', but contain imperfections that the students (and instructors!) must contend with: poor seeing, cosmic rays, inaccurate metadata, etc. Dealing with such often-unpredictable flaws builds student problem-solving skills, while illustrating the everyday challenges of observational astronomy. In addition, the use of real data from a diversity of telescopes gives students first-hand experience in the pros and cons of different observational designs. And finally, inspecting and analyzing real images gives students intimate knowledge of what the night sky looks like, and how technology can improve our view. For example, as part of one lab, students pan around images from the Hubble Space Telescope and pick out tiny details that are not visible from the ground (e.g., that ``star'' in the Orion Nebula is not just a star, but actually a star with a shadowy protoplanetary disk around it!).