A SURVEY OF NEBULAE AROUND GALACTIC WOLF-RAYET STARS IN THE SOUTHERN SKY .1.

Images are presented from the first half of a survey of all Galactic W olf-Rayet stars in the catalog of van der Hucht et al. (1981) residing in the southern skies. Previous surveys used only existing broad-band photographic plates. Encouraged by successes using CCD imaging with i nterference filters of the LMC and northern Galaxy (Miller & Chu 1993) , we have expanded the survey to the southern hemisphere. In the first half of our southern survey, Halpha and [O III] narrow-band CCD image s of fields centered on known Wolf-Rayet stars have indicated the exis tence of six new ring nebulae as well as revealing previously unobserv ed morphological features in the known ring nebulae. An example of thi s is an almost perfect ring of [O III] emission residing interior to t he previously observed Halpha filaments of the Wolf-Rayet ring nebulae RCW 104. Our surveys to date indicate that 21% of all Wolf-Rayet star s have ring nebulae, with WN-type Wolf-Rayet stars having a greater li kelihood for an associated ring.