The lists copied below show coordinates, identifications, magnitudes, and other information for objects contained in James Wray's PhD thesis of southern emission-line stars. The photographic plates were taken by Karl Henize in South Africa during 1949-1951. The plates were Kodak 103a-E behind a red plexiglass filter, limiting the wavelength coverage to the interval 6100A to 6700A. Catalogues resulting from examination of short- and medium-exposure series for the entire southern sky were published by Henize in three much-cited works: 1956ApJS....2..315H (Magellanic Clouds stars and nebulae), 1967ApJS...14..125H (southern planetary nebulae), and 1976ApJS...30..491H (southern field stars). Those papers describe the observations in detail. Wray worked over long-exposure (4 hours) plates from the same series, which cover the southern Galactic plane out to about 10 degrees latitude. There is naturally considerable overlap between the Henize lists and Wray's survey. Hitherto the Wray stars and nebulae have tended to be overlooked, mainly since the dissertation was never published. As a result, for instance, in 2016 August SIMBAD showed only 347 of the 1900 objects having the Wray 15- acronym. I examined each entry star-by-star, starting from the published Wray coordinates. I used sky-survey image cut-outs from the Goddard SkyView utility to search at least a 10'x10' region. I found it helpful to compare with the H-alpha 'continuum-corrected' images from the low-resolution southern H-alpha survey by Gaustad et al. (2001PASP..113.1326G) to help identify likely candidates. There is some GALEX coverage, which helped identify uv-bright candidates. Since most of the stars are rather bright, the SuperCOSMOS H-alpha survey (Parker et al., 2005MNRAS.362..689P) was less useful. The stars are generally overexposed on both the short-red and H-alpha images, and thus any H-alpha enhancement is indeterminate from simple inspection. (This survey is excellent for the nebulae and faint stars, of course.) I obtained coordinates and other information from a VizieR search on a long list of catalogues using a 180 arcsec search radius. Many special cases were checked more thoroughly via a 'show-all' VizieR search and in SIMBAD. Identifying the stars involved much cross-matching against catalogues with variously uncertain coordinates. Lloyd Wackerling, who was Wray's Northwestern Univ colleague, published a comprehensive all-sky catalogue of emission-line stars that includes most of the Wray objects (VizieR III/17B). He also re-measured positions for Wray's southernmost stars, since these were often in error. I usually adopted those identifications, though not all the revised positions were correct. Already having the various Henize lists present in B/mk at VizieR allowed me to make cross-checks in both directions and correct several errors all around. Probably through coordinates/bookkeeping slips, a few stars appear twice in the same table or in two Wray tables; those that I found are flagged. All the sorts of emission-line star and planetary nebula mimics appear in Wray's survey, including Wolf-Rayet stars, symbiotics, small HII regions, M-giants and Miras, even galaxies. Thus the lists are not pure samples of specific stellar types, but contain a mix of variously interesting objects. Many objects in the two planetary nebulae lists (Tables 16 and 17) were nevertheless simply not found. Many stars in all the lists were recoverable some arcminutes from the nominal positions (usually errors in Dec only). It is also clear that Wray often listed late-type stars, almost all without emission, probably due to mistaking the sharp TiO bandhead at 6544A for H-alpha emission. This is a common error in objective-prism surveys. For Table 15 I show coordinates and complete HD/CD/CPD identifications. N.B.: the Cordoba and Cape numbers are often very similar! Fairly good V magnitudes are available for nearly all the stars. The Wray magnitudes are nominally also V, but are systematically too bright by about a full magnitude (they are in fact closer to Cousins R). In the remarks I show aliases especially to other emission-line surveys, particularly the Henize names, since these are from a closely related data-set. Not all the Wray stars actually have H-alpha emission, so this helps confirm the IDs (and the emission-line nature) from independent sources. Where relevant I show IRAS names, which mostly serve to flag the late-type M-giants, though luminous Be stars can also be IRAS sources. Table 16 contains the likely planetary nebulae. These tend to be better studied, so I show only coordinates and V magnitudes plus some new remarks. I was unable to recover quite a lot of these objects, presumably resulting from flaws on the Henize-Wray plates. I note that a large number of the Table 16 objects were sought by Stephenson & Sanduleak, and confirmed in their H-alpha survey from Curtis Schmidt objective-prism plates (1977PW&SO...2...71S). Table 17 shows the less-likely 'possible' planetary nebulae. These turn out to be a mixed bag of objects, and a substantial number of the entries were simply not recovered. Wray himself writes that "many of these are undoubtedly plate flaws". Table 18 shows the carbon and S-type stars. These turn out to be a mix of carbon and S types intermingled with ordinary M giants. For each entry I give the CSS (VizieR III/168) or CGCS3 (III/227) numbers. I show improved V magnitudes for the stars. As with Table 15, Wray's magnitudes are much too bright by about 1.5 or 2 magnitudes. His magnitude zero-point is again similar to Cousins R. Table 19 shows larger diffuse nebulae and also some bright stars centered on nebulae. I attempt to give coordinates for the intended object, but this is not obvious in every case. The magnitudes are for the illuminating star if relevant, or more approximately for the smaller nebulae. The brief descriptor is for the presumed object. All these objects (including some of the Table 19 items) are now in my working copy of B/mk. I will copy this file to the Lowell ftp area at: ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/wray.dat The various Henize lists are also copied there: ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/henize.lmc ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/henize.smc ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/henize2.dat ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats/henize3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- version: 2016 Sep 20 source: 1966PhDT.........3W WRAY J.D. Thesis, 3-207 (1966) A study of H-alpha emission objects in the southern Milky Way. In the tables, col(2): Henize numbers are not in SIMBAD. Table XV: (Nos 15-1 to 15-1887); Table XVI: (Nos 16-1 to 16-423); Table XVII: (Nos 17-1 to 17-113); Table XVIII: (Nos 18-1 to 18-323); Table XIX: (Nos 19-1 to 19-55). Table 15 early-type H-alpha stars (many are late-type non-emission stars) Table 16 planetary nebulae (some errors) Table 17 possible planetary nebulae (many errors) Table 18 carbon and S stars (mixed M, carbon, and S types) Table 19 diffuse nebulae (mostly large features, but some discrete objects) position sources (column 's'): b USNO-B1.0 (I/284) C CMC15 (I/327) g GSC-2.3 (I/305) G GSC-ACT (I/255) M 2MASS (II/246) s BSkiff estimate from images for nebulae with poorly defined centers T Tycho-2 (I/259) u UKIDSS (II/314,II/316) U UCAC2 or UCAC4 (I/289,i/322A) W WISE (II/311) - other sources, including VVV and GAIA DR1