THE CATALOG SECTION The catalog section is used to assign names to columns in the standard star catalog, and optionally, to associate error columns with the named columns. The catalog section begins with the keyword catalog, followed by any number of name and error(name), column associations. Syntax catalog name number error(name) number The first declaration creates a name column number association. It consists of a name followed by a column number. The name becomes the variable name for that column. The second declaration creates an error (name) column number association. It begins with the keyword error, followed by a name in brackets and a column number. The name must be the name of an input column previously declared in the catalog section. The error declarations are optional. The column number must be a decimal integer greater than two, since catalog files always reserve the first column for a matching name. This name is used to match objects in the catalog file with objects in the observations file. Example # Sample catalog section for the UBV system. catalog V 2 error(V) 3 BV 4 error(BV) 5 UB 6 error(UB) 7