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Arp-Madore Catalog of Southern Peculiar Galaxies

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(1970s-1980s catalog from the UK Schmidt Survey)

The Arp-Madore Catalog of Southern Peculiar Galaxies is an astronomical catalog of 6000 unusual galaxies identified in the plates from the UK Schmidt Survey, which was performed on the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) in the 1980s. It covered the southern portion of the sky that was not covered by the 1960s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.


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Further reading:
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/SPGA_Atlas/frames.html
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975Obs....95..212A/abstract
PrefixExample  
AMAM 1934-563 

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