Groth Strip

The Groth Strip (aka Groth-Westphal Strip) is a strip-shaped survey field that was defined for an early Hubble Space Telescope survey (the Groth Strip Survey, GSS) carried out with the WF/PC camera, which covered the strip in 28 fields. The strip is a 140 square arcminute region located at galactic longitude 96.35°, latitude +60.25°. The strip is rectangular, but with edges not aligned with equatorial coordinates (angled more-or-less 45 degrees, I believe aligned with galactic coordinates). It has been used for further surveys, and an extended version termed the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) is still commonly used.

The abbreviation GSS is also used for the Giant Stellar Stream.