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An average of 30 B,V secondary standards per field have been established for 76 variable stars. These are mostly cataclysmic variables of various subclasses but also include a variety of other kinds of variable stars. The standards are within a few arc minutes of the variable and are therefore well suited for CCD photometry. The standards have brightnesses of V ∼ 12-17 and have a typical accuracy per standard of ± 0.01 mag.
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