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2. Observations

From 1987 November to the end of 1994, we monitored these objects and consecutive photometry at some colour was performed during a few nights for the objects PKS 0422+004, PKS 0754+101, B2 1156+295, OT 081, PKS 2254+074, PHL 658 and PKS 2128-123. The CCD attached to the 1-m RCC telescope at the Yunnan Observatory in China was a RCA 53612 (number 1) before 1993, and a TeK 512mc (number 2) since 1993, with 320 tex2html_wrap_inline1165 and 512 tex2html_wrap_inline1165 pixels of tex2html_wrap_inline1169 and tex2html_wrap_inline1171, respectively. The fields of view of the CCD system are tex2html_wrap_inline1173 for number 1 located at the Cassegrain focus (f/13.3) of the telescope and tex2html_wrap_inline1175 and tex2html_wrap_inline1177 respectively for number 1 and number 2 which were attached to a focal reducer since 1991. The comparison star sequences are taken from Smith et al. (1985) and Miller et al. (1983) for PKS 0754+101 and PKS 0422+004, from Angione(1971) for PKS 2128-123, 3C 334 and PHL 658, from Craine et al. (1975) for both OT 081 and 2254+074 and taken from Smith et al. (1985) for B2 1156+295. The comparison stars and the objects are in the same frame. The characteristics of the filters are the same as those of the Kitt Peak National Observatory (Schild 1983).



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