Abstract
A near infrared survey of the inner 300pc of Nuclear Bulge region of the Milky Way is being carried out as a core program of the SIRIUS Camera mounted on the IRSF telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory, Sutherland. The SIRIUS camera has three 1K × 1K detectors for simultaneous imaging in the J, H and Ks bands. With pixel scale of 0.45″ and good seeing most of the time, these observations present the deepest views of a large area of the Nuclear Bulge. The aim of this survey is to overcome the incompleteness and confusion limited nature of the undersampled near infrared surveys, such as DENIS and 2MASS in order to get better estimate of the extinction in these lines of sight and distinguish between various stellar populations. Preliminary results from the survey demonstrate the capability of the camera and photometric procedures for the crowded fields.
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