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1. Introduction

Between October 1994 and July 1995 we took images of double and multiple stars with a CCD camera of ST-6 type at the Belgrade Observatory. The camera was attached to the Zeiss 65/1055 cm Refractor. Images of 84 systems, i.e. 123 pairs, were obtained successfully. On the average each pair was taken 4.5 times and every image was measured by the authors. The camera pixel has a rectangular form with dimensions along the axes (x, y) as following:
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Before the pixel dimensions were derived, the focal length of the instrument had been established. It was obtained from the ephemeris values of the components separations for four orbital pairs and five ones with rectilinear trajectory (Pavlovic et al. 1996). For all nine pairs we found new orbital elements.

The focal length is found to be
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In another paper (Popovic et al. 1996) was analyzed the accuracy of the measurements for the pairs communicated here. In the position angle the residual are approximately tex2html_wrap_inline741 and for the separations about tex2html_wrap_inline743 in the case of the pairs with tex2html_wrap_inline745. We find that the internal agreement of the measurements concerning the same material is high for all the three authors by whom the measurements were performed.

This series is the 49th contribution of the Belgrade Observatory to the measurements of double and multiple systems. All earlier series have been realized by using the filar micrometer attached to the Zeiss 65/1055 cm Refractor of the Belgrade Observatory. Contribution No. 48 was communicated in 1994 (Popovic & Pavlovic 1994).


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