Abstract
As part of a project to compare the fundamental plane and Tully-Fisher distance scales, we present here I-band CCD photometry for 636 early-type galaxies in eight clusters and groups of galaxies. These are the A262, A1367, Coma (A1656), A2634, Cancer and Pegasus Clusters, and the NGC 383 and NGC 507 Groups. Sample selection, cluster properties, and cluster membership assignment criteria are discussed. We present photometric parameters that are used in the fundamental plane relation, the effective radius re, and the effective surface brightness μe, as derived from a r1/4 fit to the observed radial photometric profile of each galaxy. A comparison with similar data found in the literature for the Coma Cluster shows that large systematic uncertainties can be introduced in the measurement of re and μe by the particular method used to derive those parameters. However, the particular combination of these two parameters that enters in the fundamental plane relation is a quantity that can be measured with high accuracy.
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