Photographic surface photometry of the Southern Milky Way^*

VIII. High-resolution and R surface photometries of the Southern Milky Way

¹ Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
² Dep. Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 104, Santiago 22, Chile
³ now at: Institut für Astronomie der Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A–6020 Innsbruck, Austria
⁴ now at: DLR, Institut für Raumsimulation, Linder Höhe, D-51147 Köln, Germany
⁵ Fachbereich Informatik der Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

Send offprint request to: W. Schlosser

Received: 23 April 1997
Accepted: 9 May 1997

Abstract

We present photometries of the Southern Milky Way () in the U, V and R-passbands. The resolution is . Together with the B-photometry (Kimeswenger et al. 1993 = Paper VII), this paper gives final results of the Bochum Super–Wide–Angle–Camera photographs obtained in 1971 at La Silla, calibrated by means of accompanying photoelectric observations. The techniques employed and procedures used for the reductions are the same as described in Paper VII, and the references quoted therein. Therefore, this paper is restricted to those points, where either modifications proved to be necessary or additional information will help to judge the accuracy obtained. For this purpose, the chapters are arranged in the same manner as in Paper VII.