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color terms for Rochester Mark IV
I've taken images of the stars in SA 110 and SA 112 calibrated
by Landolt. Based on a photometric solution which includes about
90 measurements in each passband, I find the following color terms:
V = v - 0.046 * (v - i)
I = i + 0.055 * (v - i)
My photometric solution doesn't use extinction: instead, it assigns
each frame a different zero-point, which removes the bulk of the
atmospheric extinction (the differential extinction across the frame
is small enough that I can ignore it for these rough purposes).
It's good news: the natural response of the TASS systems is
pretty close to the Johnson-Cousins V and I passbands.
What I've discovered is that I need to find a better set of
calibrators. There aren't all that many stars in either SA 110 or
SA 112 which are bright enough for my Mark IV to get a decent signal
in a 60-second exposure. What I'd really like is a dense set of 10 or
so stars within a single 4x4-degree field, with good calibrated
magnitudes, in the range 7 < V < 10.
Anyone know of such fields?
Michael Richmond