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"Using Unfiltered Images to Perform Standard Filter Band Photometry"
JAAVSO Volume 45 number 1 (2017)
Joe Garlitz, Elgin, Oregon
This paper demonstrates that raw instrumental magnitudes of stars measured
from a single UNFILTERED CCD image can be transformed into standard passband
magnitudes by using cataloged field stars as reference.
For well calibrated field stars, the transformations to standard magnitudes
[eg. B V Rc Ic] can be done with a residual standard deviation of better than 0.021
magnitude.
The paper also presents a simple spreadsheet tool to automatically derive the
standard passband magnitudes from the raw instrumental magnitudes. This greatly
simplifies the task of calculating transformation coefficients of an image.
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Open Journal JAAVSO Volume 45 number 1 - 2017
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