Astronomical Photometric Calibrations at the Huancayo observatory

Authors

  • Nobar Baella Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima - Perú
  • Antonio Pereyra Instituto de Astronomía, Geofísica y Ciencias Atmosféricas, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21754/tecnia.v13i1.480

Abstract

We present a first determination of the atmospheric extinction coefficients and the transformation coefficients to the standard system for astronomical photometric studies
at the Huancayo's Observatory. The measurements were made using a CCD camera

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2003-06-01

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N. Baella and A. Pereyra, “Astronomical Photometric Calibrations at the Huancayo observatory”, TECNIA, vol. 13, no. 1, Jun. 2003.

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