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UTILITIES, CALIBRATION & STANDARDS

UTILITIES 
Astronomical Utilities

Utilities for finding nearby stars and target rise and set times; temperatures and colours of normal stars; conversions between magnitudes and flux; Mauna Kea atmospheric extinction and transmission and sky brightness values measured at UKIRT.

CALIBRATIONS 
Spectroscopic Calibration

Linelists and spectroscopic standards.

Photometric Calibration

Standard star lists and magnitudes; photometric systems; camera zeropoints and observed extinction; a guide to GAIA aperture photometry.

Polarimetry Standards

Polarised and unpolarised standard stars.




Contact: Andy Adamson. Updated: Mon Dec 27 16:18:07 HST 2004

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