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2. Observations and reductions

BVRI measurements were carried out at Calar Alto (Almeria, Spain) during May and July 1993 (when the seeing was poor) and August 1995 (when the seeing was good) using the 1.23 m telescope of the Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán (C.A.H.A.). The telescope was equipped with a tex2html_wrap_inline929 pixel TEK 6 CCD camera. The CCD detector is built into a Dewar filled with liquid nitrogen and was cooled to tex2html_wrap_inline931. The pixel size is 24tex2html_wrap_inline933 which is equivalent to tex2html_wrap_inline935. The following Johnson filters were used
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The instrumental magnitudes were corrected for atmospheric extinction and transformed to the BVRI Johnson system by means of standard stars from the fields
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The standard stars were chosen from the lists of Landoldt (1992), Christian et al. (1985) and Odewahn et al. (1992). The standard star observations were made at different air masses at least three times per night. The reductions were carried out with ESO-MIDAS 95 software. After flat field and dark field corrections, the fluxes of the single stars were computed using a single aperture routine which subtracts the effect of the sky background in the vicinity of each star. All stars were observed on at least two occasions and exposure times for the field stars ranged from 1800 s to 900 s in B and from 1200 s to 700 s in V whereas the corresponding exposure times for R and I were 400 s. For the standard stars the exposure times were 300 s in B and V and 100 s for R and I. The processing and conversion of the field and standard raw instrumental magnitudes to magnitudes relating to the Johnson system was carried out producing magnitudes which are correct to at least tex2html_wrap_inline955 mag.

 

Field Object RA Dec
1 LDN544, B127 19 01 33 -05 26 47
2 LDN549 19 02 10 -05 15 37
3 LDN567, B132 19 04 11 -04 25 29
4 LDN543, B134 19 06 55 -06 14 19
5 LDN1113, B367 21 44 18 57 10 57
6 LDN1031 21 45 54 47 13 53
7 LDN1225 23 12 16 61 39 59
8 LDN1252 (a,b,2) 23 46 01 63 18 42
9 LDN1257 23 56 10 59 49 50
Table 1: List of objects

 


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