EC Blue Object survey. -40{deg}>b>-50{deg}

This zone covers that part of the South Galactic Cap between 40{deg} and 50{deg} from the Galactic plane and south of about -12.3{deg} of declination. EC Zone 3 contains 53 UK Schmidt Telescope fields covering about 1400 deg2 in which we find some 534 blue objects, including hot subdwarfs (~39 percent), white dwarfs (~21 percent), cataclysmic variables (~2 percent) and some star-like galaxies (~9 percent).

A further 178 cooler stars observed in the survey, including low-metallicity F- and G-type stars, are also listed. Both low-dispersion spectroscopic classification and UBV photometry are presented for almost all of the hot objects and either spectroscopy or photometry (sometimes both) for the cooler ones.