Open Astronomy (Dec 2003)

Flatfielding Errors in Strömvil CCD Photometry

  • Boyle R. P.,
  • Janusz R.,
  • Philip A. G. Davis,
  • Kazlauskas A.,
  • Laugalys V.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0067
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4
pp. 476 – 483

Abstract

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The importance of determining the error of the flat field in CCD photometry is detailed and our methods of doing this are described. We now have reached a precision of 1-1.5 % in our photometry. Color-magnitude diagrams of the open cluster M67 (ours and Laugalys et al. 2003) are compared.

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