This guide presents, in a uniform manner, all the information collected by the
IUE satellite on normal galaxies. It contains information on
274 galaxies and it supersedes the previous IUE guide to normal galaxies (Longo
& Capaccioli 1992). The data shown here are restricted to
galaxies defined as ``normal'' by the observer, and entered as such in the IUE
data file header. The information is also restricted to low-dispersion spectra
obtained through the large apertures of IUE.
For the first time, we provide spectral information from
well-defined
and identifiable
locations in the target galaxies. These are mostly located close to the photocenter
of each object, although there are few exceptions. Each representative spectrum
of a galaxy consists of a short-wave (SW) and a long-wave
(LW) IUE low-dispersion
spectrum (where available) combined into a single spectrum covering the
wavelength range 1150Å to 3350Å. We selected the two spectra to
be combined so as to be, preferably,
the deepest exposures available in the INES archive. Each representative spectrum
is accompanied by two images of the galaxy, on which the locations
of the SW entrance aperture and the LW entrance aperture are marked.
