A&A Supplement series, Vol 122, April I 1997, 193-199
Received February 23; accepted June 15, 1996
H. Markov
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T. Valtchev
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J. Borissova
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V. Golev
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Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
72 Tsarigradsko chaussèe, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
Astron. Obs. of University of Sofia, P.O. box 36,
BG-1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
In our effort to study the post-main-sequence evolution of the
globular cluster stars we developed some procedures which were designed to
perform stellar photometry in moderately crowded fields by using a personal
computer. This paper presents a description of an algorithm for cleaning close
stellar companions which is included in our data processing. The main goal
is to establish how the
cleaning procedure biases the accuracy of the derived photometry. As a test
for our data reduction, BV photographic photometry for nearly 500 stars,
down to 0.6 arcmin from the center of globular cluster 
has been performed. In addition, we present a
comparison of our photometric results with those obtained with the DAOPHOT
package for the same cluster region. We also discuss the ability of three
kinds of magnitudes - based on Gaussian fits, the use of
synthetic apertures and the output of the DAOPHOT package - to reveal
morphological features in the color-magnitude diagram.
keywords: globular clusters: individual: M 5 -- technique: image processing