STAR COUNTS IN SOUTHERN DARK CLOUDS - CORONA-AUSTRALIS AND LUPUS

Star counts technique is used towards southern dark globular filaments situated in the cloud complexes of Corona Australis and Lupus. Tables and maps of the distribution of visual extinction are presented for e ach filament. Lower limit masses for the filaments and condensations h ave been estimated and the central coordinates of the condensations ar e also given. R CrA is the most active star forming region among the f ilaments studied in this work whereas Lupus 1, with almost the same lo wer limit of mass, has only a few T Tauri stars and just one young emb edded object. The distribution of direction of the magnetic field in t he condensations of Lupus, suggests that the condensation morphologies does not have any apparent relation with the magnetic field orientati on.