THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL       VOLUME 105, NUMBER 5, PAGE 1637         MAY 1993

           THE MORPHOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF GALAXIES EQUATORIAL SURVEY

                        JOHN HUCHRA AND DAVID W. LATHAM

   Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge,
                              Massachusetts 02138
        Electronic mail: huchra@cfa.harvard.edu, latham@cfa.harvard.edu

                             L. NICOLACI DA COSTA

   Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge,
 Massachusetts 02138 and CNPq/Observatorio Nacional, Rua General Jose Cristino
                77, Sao Cristovao Rio de Janeiro, R. J. Brazil
                   Electronic mail: ldacosta@cfa.harvard.edu

                               P. S. PELLEGRINI

 CNPq/Observatorio Nacional, Rua General Jose Cristino 77, Sao Cristovao Rio de
                             Janeiro, R. J. Brazil
                          Electronic mail: pssp@on.br

                               C. N. A. WILLMER

 UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
  and CNPq/Observatorio Nacional, Rua General Jose Cristino 77, Sao Cristovao
                         Rio de Janeiro, R. J. Brazil
                     Electronic mail: cnaw@helios.ucsc.edu


                                   ABSTRACT

    We present 865 redshifts of galaxies located in the equatorial strip
    -17.5 deg <= Dec. <= -2.5 deg in the right ascension range 20 h <= R.A.
    <= 5 h.  Redshifts have been obtained for the complete sample of all
    833 galaxies in the Morphological Catalog of Galaxies with magnitudes
    brighter than m = 14.5 (corresponding approximately to m(Zwicky) =
    15.0).  This sample also includes three galaxies from other sources
    with more reliable magnitudes, satisfying this limit, and 29 fainter
    galaxies, usually companions of the galaxies in the magnitude limited
    sample.  Our maps of a very large volume of nearby space demonstrate a
    variety of coherent large scale structures which include large voids,
    20-50 h^-1 Mpc in diameter and large walls at least 70 h^-1 Mpc across.