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I selected 5 ISP images (same field, different bands) to calculate the zeropoint.

These were the 5 images, all 5 second exposures (typical for ISP):

isp/20100225/o5252i0361o03/o5252i0361o03.chip01.fits
isp/20100225/o5252i0361o04/o5252i0361o04.chip01.fits
isp/20100225/o5252i0361o05/o5252i0361o05.chip01.fits
isp/20100225/o5252i0361o06/o5252i0361o06.chip01.fits
isp/20100225/o5252i0361o07/o5252i0361o07.chip01.fits

I then used dvo, and the bright star catalog (catdir.synth.bright), to find some bright stars that I could match (by eye) to the images. I found 10 stars (the same 10) in g, i, and r band, only 9 (in z), and only 3 in y (I found 5 more to get a better estimate).

psPhot was used to get instrument mags for these stars, and the zero point was found by taking the median of (catmag - instmag - 2.5log10(exp_time))

These are the ISP zeropoints I calculated:

band ZP stddev
g 19.3 0.3
r 19.1 0.3
i 18.4 0.2
z 17.2 0.1
y 14.0 0.8

Here are plots of ZP vs instrument magnitude, for the various bands:

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