Photometric Calibrations

So I've decided to create a small log of what I do every day at the office ... in the hopes that it will motivate me to keep on working.

So yesterday I spent a large amount of time doing photometric calibrations for the KELT-South telescope. All this means is calibrating how bright stars look with our telescope compared to how bright the stars are in published catalogs.

We used the Tycho2 and NOMAD catalogs with B, V and R magnitudes to calibrate the KELT-South instrumental magnitude.