The Hubble Deep Field-South observations targeted a high-galactic-latitudefield near QSO J2233-606. We present WFPC2 observations of the field in fourwide bandpasses centered at roughly 300, 450, 606, and 814 nm. Observations,data reduction procedures, and noise properties of the final images arediscussed in detail. A catalog of sources is presented, and the number countsand color distributions of the galaxies are compared to a new catalog of theHDF-N that has been constructed in an identical manner. The two fields arequalitatively similar, with the galaxy number counts for the two fieldsagreeing to within 20%. The HDF-S has more candidate Lyman-break galaxies at z> 2 than the HDF-N. The star-formation rate per unit volume computed from theHDF-S, based on the UV luminosity of high-redshift candidates, is a factor of1.9 higher than from the HDF-N at z ~ 2.7, and a factor of 1.3 higher at z ~ 4.
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