PHOTOMETRIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF UCM GALAXIES .1. OBSERVATIONS AND REDUCTIONS - MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS

We present the results of Thuan & Gunn r CCD imaging observations of t he Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) sample of emission-line gal axies (ELGs), selected by the presence of H alpha emission in low-reso lution objective prism spectra. In this work we characterize photometr ically and morphologically a total of 212 objects from the UCM survey. This Paper presents the observations and basic reductions, and lists a set of photometric parameters calculated for each UCM object. In add ition, for the first time in a ELGs sample, we have determined the mor phological classification of the objects using simultaneously five dif ferent criteria.