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It's a great way to get newcomers interested though

Speaking as a person who knows nothing, where do you get astronomical data to work with?

There has to be something more than just setting up your own telescope out there, which I couldn't do where I am.

Awesome. I knew someone had to know.

You can download Kepler data from MAST (be warned, it's in an arcane image format know as FITS).