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Internal Calibration of Stellar Magnitudes

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Astrophotography

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Considering on the one hand the well-known problems of calibrating photographic plates and on the other the demand for a statistical evaluation of large plates, a method of internal calibration which uses the objects to be studied themselves as gauging objects is essential.

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Hömberg, D. (1988). Internal Calibration of Stellar Magnitudes. In: Marx, S. (eds) Astrophotography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83268-0_14

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