  A commissioning survey of the Lookout Observatory has observed fourteen faint
(V ~ 13 to 17) variables in the region of the exoplanet Kepler-8b. Three of
these are variable star candidates discovered by the Asteroid
Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and confirmed here. The ATLAS
survey identified 315,000 probable variables within its wide-field survey in
2018. The faintness (down to r ~ 18) and small amplitudes (down to 0.02 mag)
included in these candidates makes external validation difficult. The
confirmation of this handful of variable stars lends credibility to the ATLAS
catalog. Lastly, the agreement between various surveys and this new one
validates the use of this instrument for variable star and exoplanet research.
