A catalog of morphologically classified galaxies from the sloan digital sky survey: North equatorial region

We present a catalog of morphologically classified bright galaxies in the north equatorial stripe (230 deg²) derived from the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphological classification is performed by visual inspection of images in the g band. The catalog contains 2253 galaxies complete to a magnitude limit of r = 16 after Galactic extinction correction, selected from 2658 objects that are judged to be extended in the photometric catalog in the same magnitude limit. A total of 1866 galaxies in our catalog have spectroscopic information. A brief statistical analysis is presented for the frequency of morphological types and mean colors in the catalog. A visual inspection of the images reveals that the rate of interacting galaxies in the local universe is approximately 1.5% in the r ≤ 16 sample. A verification is made for the photometric catalog generated by the SDSS, especially as to its brightend completeness.