A CATALOG OF DIGITAL IMAGES OF 113 NEARBY GALAXIES

We present a digital catalog of images of 113 galaxies in this paper. These galaxies are all nearby, bright, large, and well resolved. All i mages were recorded with charge coupled devices (CCDs) at the Palomar Observatory with the 1.5m telescope and at the Lowell Observatory with the 1.1m telescope. At Palomar we used the Thuan-Gunn g,r, and i phot ometric bands [Thuan & Gunn, PASP, 88, 543 (1976)] to take 3 images ea ch of 31 spiral galaxies; at Lowell we used the B-J and R bands (2 ima ges per galaxy) of the photometric system by Gullixson et al. [ApJS, 9 9, 281 (1995)] to observe 82 spirals and ellipticals. The galaxies wer e selected to span the Hubble classification classes. All data are pho tometrically calibrated with foreground stars removed. Important data on these galaxies published in the Third Reference Catalog of Bright G alaxies (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991) are recorded in the FITS file hea ders. All files are available through www at tp://astro.princeton.edu/ frei/galaxy-catalog.html, and Princeton University Press will soon pub lish the data on CD-ROM.