| Abstract: | A sample of nearby galaxies (Schmidt and Boller 1992, paper I) has been analysed with regard to the luminosity function and the spatial distribution. The main results are as follows: (i) a relation between the slope of the luminosity function of the members of a group of galaxies and the earliest morphological type in this group has been detected which possibly is a new kind of environmental effects; (ii) the virial masses of the groups of galaxies are, on the average, by a factor 3 to 4 greater, only, than the luminous masses derived from the individual galaxy masses; (iii) the nearby galaxies are concentrated in a thin disk-like layer around the supergalactic plane the thickness of which is a few hundred kiloparsecs, only; (iv) a population of field galaxies with nearly constant density (about 3 per cent of the number density in the supergalactic plane) is extended into the voids on both the supergalactic hemispheres. |
