Large Southern Galaxies

[glenc]

The attached file lists all of the 242 galaxies greater than 5 arc minutes in length from the ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas, (Lauberts 1982). All 242 galaxies are south of declination -17 degrees. This tab delimited file can be copied to MS Excel.
The survey lists 16,165 southern galaxies. The column Maj/Min gives the elongation.

The survey is a joint project undertaken by the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) and the Uppsala Observatory to provide a systematic
and homogeneous search of the ESO(B) Atlas (also known as the Quick
Blue Survey). The ESO(B) Atlas, taken with the ESO 1-m Schmidt
telescope at La Silla, Chile, covers 606 fields from -90 to -20
degrees of declination. The fields are similar in size and scale to
those of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. Unsensitized IIa-O plates
and a 2-mm GG385 filter were used to give a passband similar to the
Johnson B color. The actual search was conducted at the Uppsala
Observatory and resulted in a list of nonstellar objects including all
NGC and IC galaxies between -20 and -30 degrees declination, all
galaxies down to a limiting diameter of 1.0 arcmin, all disturbed
galaxies as faint as possible, all star clusters in the Catalog of
Star Clusters and Associations (Alter et al. 1970) and smaller and
fainter clusters if recognizable and all planetary nebulae listed in
the available catalogs.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/34C

[Dennis]

Thanks Glen - this looks an interesting list that would be nice to work through, both visually and CCD imaging, due to the relatively large size of the galaxies.

Cheers

Dennis

[Ric]

Thanks Glen, this could be very handy in detirmining some candidate galaxies for my supernova search project and at the very least give me some good CCD targets.

Cheers

[glenc]

The most elongated galaxy from this list is ESO 564 - G 27.
It is mag 13.5 and also known as PGC 25926.
Here is an image from the DSS2 red survey.
http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss