At the beginning of the Gallery we present three tables.
Table 1 outlines the arrangement of the Gallery by morphological class and subclass as described in §3.1. It gives one line descriptions of the classes and the abbreviations used to indicate the class in Table 3.
Table 2 is the Table of Contents for the Rogues Gallery. It lists the galaxies in the order in which they appear in the Atlas, grouped by class, followed by the Figure and page number.
Table 3
presents basic information for all 432 of the cataloged
galaxies labeled in the 181 images of the Rogues Gallery. The entries
are listed in order of increasing Right Ascension (J2000) of the main
target galaxy in the image. The galaxies are grouped by image and
groups are separated by thick horizontal lines. Within a group
individual galaxies are separated by thin horizontal lines. In the
first two columns we list the most popular catalog names. In column
three we list the J2000 coordinates and the heliocentric radial
velocity (km s
). All information
in these first three
columns is taken directly from a batch query to the NASA Extragalactic
Database (NED) in July
of 2001. Column 4 lists the morphological type
as found in NED, the
RSA (Sandage & Tamman 1987) and the RC3 catalogs
(de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991). Column 5 gives the class as defined in
§3 and
Table 1, and the Figure and page number.
In addition to the three table mentioned above, there is a comprehensive object index at the end of this volume, which includes all objects in the Rogues Gallery.