A Note on the Calibration of Pickering / Racine Prisms

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Jun 1984

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 96, NO. 580, P. 494, 1984

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We show that all of the primary and secondary images of photoelectrically measured stars on plates exposed with a Pickering-Racine prism can be used to simultaneously determine the plate calibration and primary-secondary magnitude difference Δ. The uncertainty in Δ so determined is found to he significantly smaller than that determined using only those secondary images brighter than the faintest photoelectrically measured primary image. The technique is useful only if the precautions outlined by Christian and Racine (1983) are closely observed.

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