Photometric Reductions: Theory and Practice

Abstract

This report discusses sundry topics in the theory and practice of the reduction of photometric data. The topics included are monochromatic extinction, wide-band extinction with all second-order terms, transformations from the instrumental system to the standard system, error analysis, and observing procedures. In addition, the approximate computation of an artificial satellite's standard magnitude from extremely wide-band data is discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 17, 1976
Accession Number
ADA035870

Entities

People

  • Laurence G. Taff

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Masses
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheres
  • Bandwidth
  • Celestial Brightness
  • Coefficients
  • Computations
  • Deflection
  • Error Analysis
  • Errors
  • Extinction
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Photometers
  • Rayleigh Scattering
  • Scattering

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space