25. Commission de Photométrie Stellaire

Much material extending our knowledge of stellar magnitudes has accumulated during the last four years. In the appendix to this report will be found a list of recent catalogues, a summary of the discussion made at Mt Wilson by Seares and the formulae that he finds for the reduction of these catalogues to a fundamental system, until such time as a more extended discussion shall have furnished definitive corrections.</jats:p

25. Commission de Photométrie Stellaire

The following summarizes the activities of various members of the Commission in matters pertaining to stellar photometry during the interval 1932-35: La partie photométrique des trois derniers volumes du Catalogue Astrographique (zone de Catane entre +46° et +55°) est soigneusement dressée sur le système de Miss Leavitt (Harv. Annals, 81). L’erreur moyenne des grandeurs, d’après la réduction de 100 plaques (zones +51° à + 54°, entre 6h et I2h), n’est que de ± om.o8. Nos réductions photométriques ont été effectuées par la formuleD = a-bg+cg2-dg3,où D dénote le diamètre de l’image photographique et G=8m+g dénote la grandeur de l’étoile.</jats:p

25. Commission de Photométrie Stellaire

The committee of the Carte du Ciel in 1910 adopted the following convention : That for Ao stars between magnitudes 5·5 and 6·5 the mean photographic magnitude should equal the mean Harvard visual magnitude. As a corollary, the colour index of Ao stars would then be zero.The zero point of the photographic magnitudes of the International Polar Sequence was fixed as nearly as possible in accordance with this definition; but it was by no means certain that the magnitudes thus adopted for the few stars of the Sequence represented the zero point defined by all the Ao stars specified.</jats:p