1 Introduction

This work presents H-band (1.65 $\mu$m) observations of 170 galaxies in the regions of the Virgo cluster, of the A262 and Cancer clusters and in the Coma Supercluster obtained in 1997 with the Calar Alto 2.2 m telescope equipped with the NICMOS3 camera MAGIC. This is an accompanying paper of Paper III (Gavazzi et al. 2000a, this issue) where similar observations of 558 galaxies obtained with the TIRGO 1.5 m telescope are reported. Since most considerations are in common between the two papers, we preferred to give them in Paper III to avoid unnecessary duplications. Only data which depend on the Calar Alto instrumentation and telescope are given in full details here. The paper is organized as follows: Sect. 2 describes the studied sample, and the observations are outlined in Sect. 3. Image analysis strategies are discussed in Sect. 4. Preliminary results are given in Sect. 5 and summarized in Sect. 6.