6 Summary

Two surface photometries of the southern Milky Way have been established at central wavelengths 217nm and 280nm. Except for some windows of low extinction in the interstellar dust, all the light phenomena on the maps are local and can be attributed to the integrated light of young hot stellar objects or to scattering phenomena resulting from the interaction of OB starlight with the interstellar grains.

The data will be soon accessible in digital form at the astronomical data center Centre de Données Stellaires (CDS) in Strasbourg under

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/htbin/myqcat3?VII/199/

At this address, all major surface photometries of the Milky Way shall be collected and made accessible to the public.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Prof. Dr. W.C. Seitter and her staff of the Astronomisches Institut der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster for granting measuring time and technical support. We also thank the Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten (DARA) for financial support.