The significance of investigating the extragalactic sky in the "zone of avoidance" (ZOA) of the Galaxy, our search methods, and the material used for our survey (red sensitive POSSI-E prints) has been described and discussed in detail in previous parts of our series (Saurer et al. 1997 (part IV); Lercher et al. 1996 (part III); Seeberger et al. 1996 (part II), and Weinberger et al. 1995 (part I)).
A graphical overview of the status of our survey is shown in Fig.1 (click here).
Not included in this figure is the recently started survey
in the area around the Circinus
Galaxy at 
, 
.
Figure 1:
The status of the Innsbruck-survey for optical galaxies in the ZOA. The references for the
various parts can be found in the text
In this paper we present the results of our survey within the area
, 
.
This region is of special interest also because a branch of the
Pisces-Perseus-Supercluster (PPScl) starting at (
, b) 
(
, 
) and extending to the north is approaching the ZOA
at 
, coming from the south
(see, e.g., Focardi et al. 1984; Merighi et al.
1986; Meurs & Harmon 1988). Seeberger et al.
(1994) could pursue this branch of the PPScl to 
. Mainly in the light of new doubt about the crossing of the main
ridge of the PPScl (at 
) through the ZOA which was
brought into discussion by Lu & Freudling (1995) it would be
interesting to study this feature in more detail. For this purpose we have
started to carry out radial velocity measurements by means of low
resolution spectroscopy on a selected sample of galaxies at the southern and
northern parts of the ZOA within this region.