Index: /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/init_catalog.c
===================================================================
--- /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/init_catalog.c	(revision 6994)
+++ /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/init_catalog.c	(revision 6995)
@@ -15,3 +15,13 @@
   ALLOCATE (catalog[0].missing, Missing, 1);
 
+  // there is no data yet on disk:
+  catalog[0].Nave_disk = 0;
+  catalog[0].Nmeas_disk = 0;
+  catalog[0].Nmiss_disk = 0;
+  catalog[0].Nmeas_off = 0;
 }
+
+/* setup secondary filters to match photcodes:
+ * Nsecfilt is number of filters.  Number of entries in array is
+ * Nsecfilt * Naverage.  At this point, N entries == 0
+ */
Index: /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/mkcatalog.c
===================================================================
--- /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/mkcatalog.c	(revision 6994)
+++ /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/mkcatalog.c	(revision 6995)
@@ -119,18 +119,3 @@
   fits_modify (&catalog[0].header, "DATE", "%s", 1, line);
   free (line);
-
-  /* dummy allocation so realloc will succeed */
-  ALLOCATE (catalog[0].average, Average, 1);
-  ALLOCATE (catalog[0].measure, Measure, 1);
-  ALLOCATE (catalog[0].missing, Missing, 1);
-  ALLOCATE (catalog[0].secfilt, SecFilt, 1);
-  catalog[0].Naverage = catalog[0].Nmeasure = catalog[0].Nmissing = 0;
-  catalog[0].Nave_disk = catalog[0].Nmeas_disk = catalog[0].Nmiss_disk = 0;
-  catalog[0].Nmeas_off = 0;
-  catalog[0].Nsecfilt = GetPhotcodeNsecfilt ();
-
-  /* setup secondary filters to match photcodes:
-   * Nsecfilt is number of filters.  Number of entries in array is
-   * Nsecfilt * Naverage.  At this point, N entries == 0
-   */
 }
Index: /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/select_by_region.c
===================================================================
--- /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/select_by_region.c	(revision 6994)
+++ /trunk/Ohana/src/getstar/src/select_by_region.c	(revision 6995)
@@ -13,5 +13,7 @@
 
   /* identify selection criteria */
-  if (VERBOSE) fprintf (stderr, "extracting for range %d to %d\n", start, end);
+  if (VERBOSE) fprintf (stderr, "extracting for time range %d to %d\n", start, end);
+  if (VERBOSE) fprintf (stderr, "extracting for region %f,%f to %f,%f\n", 
+			region[0].Rmin, region[0].Dmin, region[0].Rmax, region[0].Dmax);
 
   /* select the average objects in this region */
@@ -60,4 +62,8 @@
     }
   }
+  output[0].Naverage = Nave;
+  output[0].Nmeasure = Nmeas;
+  fprintf (stderr, "output catalog has %d stars (%d measures, %d secfilt)\n",
+	   output[0].Naverage, output[0].Nmeasure, output[0].Nsecfilt);
   return (TRUE);
 }