The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey (or EC in astronomical notation)C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz, ''Asteroseismology'' (2010), p. 105. is a major astronomical survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B~18 in the southern hemisphere, and is an extension of the earlier Palomar-Green survey. At the time of its initiation, the completed survey was expected to cover "around 10,000 square degrees at high galactic latitudes in the southern hemisphere to a limiting magnitude of B ~ 18 mag". The star EC 20058-5234, also known as QU Telescopii, was discovered during the survey. Other notable stars observed include BB Doradus, and the survey generally contributed to the number of known H-deficient stars. The stellar objects to be observed were "selected by automatic techniques from U and B pairs of

UK Schmidt Telescope The UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) is a 1.24 metre Schmidt telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (formerly the Anglo-Australian Observatory); it is located adjacent to the 3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope at S ...

plates scanned with the COSMOS measuring machine", with "follow-up photometry and spectroscopy" being obtained with the

South African Astronomical Observatory South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's funct ...

telescopes.R.S. Stobie, et al., ''The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey'', Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. (June 1, 1997), Vol. 287, No. 4, p. 848-866.

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