[ESO/SRC atlas of the Southern Sky, J half
By: European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Science Research Council of the United Kingdom (SRC)]
Contributors: European Southern Observatory.; Science Research Council (Great Britain); Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Publisher: ESO Sky Atlas Laboratory
Published: 1977
Place of publication: [Geneva
Language: eng
Subjects: Stars -- Atlases.; Southern sky (Astronomy) -- Atlases.
Other titles: Atlas of the Southern sky, J half.; ESO/SRC J Southern sky atlas.; Southern sky atlas.
Notes: Title from publisher's packing lists and correspondence.
Data sheet enclosure with installment 4 from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh has title: ESO/SRC J Southern sky atlas.
"The 'J' in the title refers to the Eastman-Kodak type IIIa J emulsion."
"Film copies for the Atlas are made at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Sky Atlas Laboratory [in Geneva]."
Transparent film negatives enclosed in transparent plastic envelopes. Also published on glass plates.
On each negative: Copyright SRC.
"SRC (J) Survey plates are taken ... in New South Wales, Australia ... [on a] ... telescope operated as a field station by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh."
"Further details ... will be given in a series of papers now in preparation ... and which together will form a 'users guide' to the Atlas."