Improved astrometry by Nikolay Kuropatkin Zeropoints from Douglas Tucker: The column names in the table are a bit strange, due to the inner workings of my matching routine. Basically, you want to use FILENAME_2 (or EXPNUM_2 and CCDNUM_2) to match to the right fullcat catalog. The zeropoint to use is MAG_ZERO_MEAN. The statistical uncertainty in tying to the ATLAS-REFCAT2 catalog is MAG_ZERO_MEAN_ERR (it is in magnitudes). The number of matched stars that went into calculating the photometric zeropoint is MAG_ZERO_NUM. The plots are skyplots for expnum 908899, color coded for MAG_ZERO_MEAN, MAG_ZERO_MEAN_ERR, and MAG_ZERO_NUM. To calculate DES calibrated mags in the 908899 fullcat file: mag_des_calib = -2.5*log10(FLUX_APER_08) + MAG_ZERO_MEAN (although FLUX_APER_08 was used for the calculation of these photometric zeropoints, the aperture offset from FLUX_PSF is small enough to use FLUX_PSF, as well, at least for a quick look).