Abstract: | On Tautenburg Schmidt plates in system V taken at seeings of about 2″ the determination of real angular diameters of compact galaxies down to 4″ is possible. Diameter-magnitude diagrams of objects in four fields around the globular cluster M3 show the possibility for getting homogeneous material concerning both the uniformity of the equidensitometric copying process and the measuring process with the iris photometer in order to determine the integral brightness of single galaxies from their limiting equidensities. |