Each line of the file Carina.dat contains the following information. Actual values are shown for star 15025. Col. type value explanation ---- ---- ----- ----------- 1 integer 15025 sequential identification number 2 real 4185.0 x in accompanying image, increases E at 0\Sec5/pixel 3 real 3391.5 y in accompanying image, increases N at 0\Sec5/pixel 4 real 20.209 B-band magnitude 5 real 0.0030 sigma(B), standard error of the mean 6 integer 10 number of valid photometric measurements in B 7 real 18.479 I-band magnitude 5 real 0.0046 sigma(R), standard error of the mean 9 integer 14 number of valid photometric measurements in R 10 real 1.049 mean value of the chi image-quality index 11 real -0.027 mean value of the sharp image-quality index 12 real 10.73 value of the sep image-isolation index 13 real 0.283 value of the variability index 14 real 12.0 weight of the variability index 15-17 h m s 06 41 22.36 Right ascension, equinox J2000.0, epoch 1995 18-20 deg min sec -50 49 48.3 Declination, equinox J2000.0, epoch 1995 21 integer 24 number of images used for the astrometry