The UBVRI CCD photometric observations were obtained, using
photometric CCD system at f/13 cassegrain focus of the 104-cm telescope of the
Uttar Pradesh State Observatory (UPSO) on nights during October - December 1990
and November - December 1992. In order to improve the S/N ratio, the
observations were taken in binning mode of 
pixels. In this setup,
each pixel of 
size CCD corresponds to 0.66 arcsec and the
entire chip covers a field of 
arcmin. The details of the CCD
system have been given in Mohan et al. (1991).
Figure 1: Identification map for the cluster Be 64
Figure 2: Identification map for the cluster Be 69
Figure 3: The internal errors as a function of V magnitude
In case of Be 64 one field centred on the cluster was observed
(Fig. 1 (click here)). In addition to it, two fields situated 
towards east and west of the cluster were also observed. For
Be 69 two overlapping fields called north and south were imaged to cover
the cluster region (Fig. 2 (click here)). Also, two nearby fields towards
north and south of the cluster situated 
away from the
cluster centre were observed. Multiple exposures with exposure times
ranging from 10 s to 900 s depending on the presence of bright stars and
filter used were taken. Details of observations have been given in Table
1. We have sandwiched the exposures of each field in each filter with
exposure of a comparison field in the same filter. The comparison frames
were in the vicinity of the cluster regions. The observations were
carried out within two hours of meridian so that air mass change within a
given sandwich was only marginal. The comparison fields were standardised
using Landolt's (1983) stars. A number of bias and twilight
flat - field frames were also taken on several nights during the observing
runs.
The data analysis was carried out using the computing facilities (Vax Station and Alpha Station) available at the Observatory. The frames were cleaned employing the standard procedures using ESO MIDAS softwares running on the above systems of the Observatory. Different clean frames of same field in the same filter were co-added. Photometry of co-added frames was carried out using DAOPHOT photometric package by Stetson (1987). PSF was obtained for each frame using several uncontaminated stars and the PSF magnitudes were suitably tied to aperture photometry magnitudes. For comparison fields, standard stars and bright stars in the cluster fields, only aperture photometry was obtained.
Figure 4: a) The variation of colour - index parameter (CIP) with
age. The data have been taken from Vandenberg (1985).
b) Same as Fig. 4a. The data have been taken from Bertelli
et al. (1994)
For each frame, differential magnitudes and colours were obtained using
the observed magnitudes of the comparison field. There differential magnitudes
were then standardised using the transformation equations obtained by Mohan et
al. (1991) for the CCD system.
.
For V magnitudes no colour term could be determined. The internal
errors estimated from the scatter in the individual measures of different
exposures are shown in Fig. 3 (click here) as a function of V magnitude. The average
value of 
for stars having 
comes out to be
, 
, 
, 
and
whereas, for stars having 
, 
,
, 
, 
comes out to be 0.04. The X and Y
co-ordinates as well as photometric data of the stars measured in the clusters
Be 64 and Be 69 have been given in Tables 2 and 3 respectively.