A&A Supplement series, Vol. 128, March II 1998, 621-630
Received May 20; accepted August 4, 1997
A. Ortiz-Gil
,
- M. Hiesgen
- P. Brosche
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Sternwarte der Universität
Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Université, 67000 Strasbourg,
France
A new procedure for the reduction of "Carte du Ciel'' plates is presented.
A typical "Carte du Ciel'' plate corresponding to the Bordeaux zone has been
taken as an example. It shows triple exposures for each object and the
modeling of the data has been performed by means of a non-linear least
squares
fitting of the sum of three bivariate Gaussian distributions. A number of
solutions for the problems present in this kind of plates (optical
aberrations, adjacency photographic effects, presence of grid lines, emulsion
saturation) have been investigated. An internal accuracy of
in x and y was obtained for the position of each
of the individual exposures. The external reduction to a catalogue led to
results with an accuracy of 
in x and
in y for the mean position of the three exposures.
A photometric calibration has also been performed and magnitudes were
determined with an accuracy of 
.
keywords: astrometry -- methods: data analysis -- open cluster: M67