Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
In a series of observations (Mizuno et al. 1981; Mizuno 1982; Nakano et al. 1983), we have carried out the surface photometry of small H II regions which were selected from Sharpless catalogue (1959) by the following properties: (1) small angular size (≦ 10 arcmin), (2) round and simple appearance, and (3) a single BO V star as the exciting star. Properties (1) and (2) are for the convenience of image processing, and property (3) is to avoid the contamination of [O III] emission in the V-band so as to get pure continuum intensity.