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Imaging: Zeropoints

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Nominal zeropoints for a 5 arcsecond aperture at an airmass of 1.0 are given below. A larger field stop was installed in February 2003 leading to less vignetting at L' and M', and larger zeropoints. Note that the zeropoint is a function of airmass, can vary from night to night, and will be smaller than these values if the seeing is very poor.

Filter Zeropoint mag
  Oct 2002-Feb 2003 Mar 2003-
J 21.12 21.15
H 21.47 21.50
K 20.77 20.80
L' 19.40 19.50
M' 17.13 17.29



Contact: Watson P. Varricatt. Updated: Tue Aug 8 13:39:55 HST 2006

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