Preliminary results from a new survey of ringed galaxies

The SRC-J and ESO-B Sky Survey copy films are being used to compile a major new catalogue of apparent diameters, axis ratios, and relative bar/ring position angles of inner and outer rings in more than one thousand southern galaxies. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the data for about two hundred SB rings of both types. It is concluded that the rings have a wide range of intrinsic eccentricities, and more importantly that they have preferred alignments, one mode for inner rings and two for outer rings, with respect to bars.