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James K
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How to get the zeropoint magnitude?

I'm working with some data and I have some values named fluxmag0 and fluxmag0err that should correspond to the zero point values and error in flux units.

The values are around $10^{13}$ for fluxmag0 and $10^9$ for fluxmag0err

I need to have the zero point error in magnitude units. If I take $2.5\log_{10}(\mathrm{fluxmag0err})$ the values are huge so I suppose it's not the way to compute this.

How can I convert these values in terms of magnitudes?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help