THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 104:287-315, 1996 June

     ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING TELESCOPE NEAR-ULTRAVIOLET BRIGHT OBJECT CATALOG

                                 ERIC P. SMITH
    Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 681-NASA/Goddard Space
                      Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771

                                ANDREW J. PICA
    Department of Physics, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD 21801

                                RALPH C. BOHLIN
    Space Telescope Science Institute, Honewood Campus, Baltimore, MD 21218

         ROBERT H. CORNETT, MICHAEL N. FANELLI, AND WAYNE B. LANDSMAN
  Hughes/STX, Code 681, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771

                              ROBERT W. O'CONNELL
                 Astronomy Department, University of Virginia

                               MORTON S. ROBERTS
             National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Edgemont Road,
                           Charlottesville, VA 22903

                                      AND

                    ANDREW M. SMITH AND THEODORE P. STECHER
    Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 680-NASA/Goddard Space
                      Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771


                                   ABSTRACT

        We present a photometric catalog of 2244 objects detected by the
     Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope in the near-ultraviolet (NUV; 1650 A <
     lambda < 2900 A) during the Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission.  Sources in
     the catalog are as faint as m_nuv ~ 18.8, or f_nuv ~ 1.1 x 10^-16
     ergs/s/cm^2/A, but the survey is not complete to this level.  Optical
     catalogs were used to cross identify sources and derive NUV-V colors.
     A majority of the objects (88%) do indeed have proposed optical
     identifications from catalogs, and most are stars.  Our purpose in
     creating the catalog is to form a database useful for identifying very
     blue objects and performing Galactic UV stellar population studies.

     Subject headings: catalogs -- galaxies: photometry -- ultraviolet:
                       stars