Dear Dr. Skiff, Dr. Henden, and colleagues, I am Seiichi Yoshida working on the MISAO Project. While I was trying to estimate the coefficient of (B-V) for our systems, I found one interesting example. Two bright stars in the following image are recorded both in Tycho-1 and Tycho-2 Catalogue. http://vsnet.aerith.net/tmp/ohkura.20000914.2035+5500none.014.gif http://vsnet.aerith.net/tmp/ohkura.20000914.2035+5500none.014.fts The catalog data of them are as follows. Tycho-1: Star V B-V BT VT --------------------------------------------------- Left TYC 3957-310-1 10.59 0.585 11.300 10.656 Right TYC 3957-12-1 9.89 0.463 10.432 9.941 Tycho-2: Star V B-V BT VT --------------------------------------------------- Left TYC 3957-310-1 10.697 0.361 11.160 10.735 Right TYC 3957-12-1 9.860 0.431 10.431 9.906 I measured the magnitude of them by hand on the FITS image. The pixel count of the left is 69576, the right is 102960. So the right star is 0.426 brighter than the left. The difference of V magnitude in Tycho-1 and Tycho-2 catalogs are larger than the difference of the measured magnitude. It implies that the left star is more reddish, and became brighter on the unfiltered CCD image, then the difference became smaller. However, the B-V value in the Tycho-2 catalog does not coincide this. On the other hand, the B-V value in the Tycho-1 catalog does. The magnitude error of VT and BT are smaller than 0.2 mag in the Tycho-2 Catalogue. The difference of V, VT and BT magnitude of the two stars between the Tycho-1 and Tycho-2 Catalogue are smaller than 0.2 mag. But estimating the coefficient 'k' based on the B-V value, the accuracy is not enough... Best regards, -- Seiichi Yoshida comet@aerith.net http://vsnet.aerith.net/