DEEP MULTICOLOR SURVEY .1. IMAGING OBSERVATIONS AND CATALOG OF STELLAR OBJECTS

We have used the Kitt Peak National Observatory 4 m Mayall telescope t o image 0.83 square degrees of sky in six fields at high galactic lati tude in six filters spanning 3000-10000 Angstrom to magnitude limits r anging from 22.1 to 23.8. We have assembled a catalog of 21,375 stella r objects detected in the fields for use primarily in conducting a mul ticolor search for quasars. This paper describes the data reduction te chniques used on the CCD data, the methods used to construct the stell ar object catalog, and the simulations performed to understand its com pleteness and contamination.