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| Arcsecond Positions of UGC Galaxies
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| The Southern Sky Redshift Survey
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| Total magnitude, radius, colour indices, colour gradients and photometric type of galaxies
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| An image database. II. Catalogue between δ=-30deg and δ=70deg.
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| The distribution of galaxies around NGC 5846
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| H I line studies of galaxies. III - Distance moduli of 822 disk galaxies
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