The fourth United States Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph Catalog, UCAC4 was released in August 2012 (double-sided DVD and CDS data center Vizier catalog I/322). It is the final release in this series and contains over 113 million objects; over 105 million of them with proper motions. UCAC4 is an updated version of UCAC3 with about the same number of stars also covering all-sky. Bugs were fixed, Schmidt plate survey data were avoided, and precise 5-band photometry were added for about half the stars. Astrograph observations have been supplemented for bright stars by FK6, Hipparcos and Tycho-2 data to compile a UCAC4 star catalog complete from the brightest stars to about magnitude R = 16. Epoch 1998 to 2004 positions are obtained from observations with the 20 cm aperture USNO Astrograph's "red lens", equipped with a 4k by 4k CCD. Mean positions and proper motions are derived by combining these observations with over 140 ground-and space-based catalogs, including Hipparcos/Tycho and the AC2000.2, as well as unpublished measures of over 5000 plates from other astrographs. For most of the faint stars in the Southern Hemisphere the first epoch plates from the Southern Proper Motion (SPM) program form the basis for proper motions, while the Northern Proper Motion (NPM) 1st epoch plates serve the same purpose for the rest of the sky. These data are supplemented by 2MASS near-IR photometry for about 110 million stars and 5-band (B,V,g,r,i) APASS data for over 51 million stars. Thus the published UCAC4, as were UCAC3 and UCAC2, is a compiled catalog with the UCAC observational program being a major component. The positional accuracy of stars in UCAC4 at mean epoch is about 15 to 100 mas per coordinate, depending on magnitude, while the formal errors in proper motions range from about 1 to 10 mas/yr depending on magnitude and observing history. Systematic errors in proper motions are estimated to be about 1 to 4 mas/yr.

We present the first set of definitive trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions from the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory Parallax Investigation. Full astrometric reductions for the program are discussed, including methods of reference star selection, differential color refraction corrections, and conversion of relative to absolute parallax. Using data acquired at the 0.9 m telescope at CTIO, full astrometric solutions and VRIJHK s photometry are presented for 36 red and white dwarf stellar systems with proper motions faster than 1B0 yr À1 . Of these, 33 systems have their first ever trigonometric parallaxes, which comprise 41% of MOTION systems (those reported to have proper motions greater than 1B0 yr À1 ) south of ¼ 0 that have no parallaxes. Four of the systems are new members of the RECONS 10 pc sample for which the first accurate trigonometric parallaxes are published here: DENIS J1048À3956 (4:04 AE 0:03 pc), GJ 1128 (LHS 271, 6:53 AE 0:10 pc), GJ 1068 (LHS 22, 6:97 AE 0:09 pc), and GJ 1123 (LHS 263, 9:02 AE 0:16 pc). In addition, two red subdwarf-white dwarf pairs, LHS 193AB and LHS 300AB, are identified. The white dwarf secondaries fall in a previously uncharted region of the H-R diagram.