Groth Strip

The Groth Strip (aka Groth-Westphal Strip) is a strip-shaped survey field that was defined for an early Hubble Space Telescope survey (the Groth Strip Survey, GSS) carried out with the WF/PC camera, which covered the strip in 28 fields. The strip is a 140 square arcminute region located at galactic longitude 96.35°, latitude +60.25°. The strip is rectangular, but with edges not aligned with equatorial coordinates (angled more-or-less 45 degrees, I believe aligned with galactic coordinates). It has been used for further surveys, and an extended version termed the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) is still commonly used.