Abstract

The Burrell Schmidt-type telescope of the Warner and Swasey Observatory in its new location on Kitt Peak in Arizona is being used for a spectroscopic survey of the region b > +30°. and δ < +30°. The plates, which cover 5° × 5°, are taken with the 1 o. 8 prism which provides a dispersion of 1350 Å mm at Hγ. Eastman Kodak IIIa-J plates, baked in forming gas, are used without filter to cover the spectral range 3300 to 5350 Å. The exposure times of 75 minutes reach a limiting blue magnitude of ~ 18.0 for threshold detection of an unwidened stellar continuum. The categories of objects which are being catalogued are blue and/or emission-line galaxies, probable HII regions, blue and/or emission-line stellar objects, known and probable blue stars, main-sequence late B and A-type stars, suspected field horizontal-branch stars of types A and F including RR Lyrae variables, suspected F and G-type subdwarfs showing a UV excess, faint carbon and late M suspected halo giants, and peculiar objects.KeywordsCarbon StarSpectroscopic SurveyBlue ObjectGalactic StarPeculiar ObjectThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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