The "ESO/SRC Atlas of the Southern Sky" is a major tool for, among other things, the optical identification of sources in non-optical wavelengths. The catalog contains the coordinates of the plate centers, as well as the actual observation dates of the plates composing the ESO(B) Survey (also called the Quick Blue Survey) over in the period 1973/79, the ESO Red survey, observed in the period 1978/90, and the SRC-J survey at the Anglo-Australian telescope in the period 1974/1987.
Cone search capability for table VI/30A/eso (Plates composing the ESO survey (in Blue and Red), plus SERC blue survey.)