Here are some of the stars in the BV sequence for DY Pup, which is in the field of NGC 2559. I grabbed these from my large file of field-star photometry (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/loneos.phot). I show Arne's V and B-V along with a predicted R magnitude (rounded to 0.1-mag. prcision). Next come photo-blue and photo-red magnitudes from three surveys, plus the UCAC1 "orange" magnitudes. The B1.0 data are specifically the second-epoch 'B2' and 'R2' values. For UCAC, the offset from V is a very typical -0.3 mag., so to get rough V magnitudes, _add_ 0.3 to the UCAC value. This might be your best bet in this field. For the fainter stars, it looks to me as though the data from the Schmidt plate-scans are simply noisy, probably mainly due to crowding, but that the red magnitudes from all the surveys are roughly correct in zero-point. \Brian star RA (2000) Dec V B-V R mb mr mb mr mo mb mr DY_PUP 8 13 53.3 -26 30 53 13.57 0.46 13.3 14.0 13.2 13.9 13.2 13.17 DY_PUP 8 13 46.7 -26 33 50 13.77 1.04 13.2 14.6 12.9 14.5 13.0 13.34 DY_PUP 8 13 50.7 -26 35 24 14.10 0.52 13.8 14.8 13.8 14.6 13.6 13.85 DY_PUP 8 14 08.8 -26 37 02 14.50 0.68 14.1 14.9 13.5 14.9 13.8 14.30 15.14 14.03 DY_PUP 8 13 40.1 -26 33 47 16.01 0.63 15.6 16.8 16.0 16.7 15.6 16.38 15.16 DY_PUP 8 13 53.5 -26 33 29 16.25 0.54 15.9 15.9 15.4 16.0 15.4 16.16 15.66 DY_PUP 8 14 13.0 -26 27 55 16.53 0.92 16.0 17.1 16.0 17.3 15.9 17.34 16.06 DY_PUP 8 14 08.4 -26 38 06 16.85 0.41 16.6 17.2 16.5 17.3 16.6 17.37 16.64