  We present a multicolour catalogue of faint galaxies situated close to bright
stars, V<15, with the aim of identifying high-redshift galaxies suitable for
study with adaptive optics-equipped near-infrared imagers and spectrographs.
The catalogue is constructed from archival calibration observations of UKIRT
Faint Standard stars with the UFTI camera on UKIRT. We have analysed the
deepest 16 fields from the archive to provide a catalogue of galaxies brighter
than K~20.3 lying within 25" of the guide stars. We identify 111 objects in a
total survey area of 8.7 sq. arcmin, of these 87 are classified as galaxies
based on their light profiles in our ~0.5" median seeing K-band images. Of
these, 12 galaxies have (J-K)>2.0 consistent with them lying at high-redshifts,
z~2. These 12 very red galaxies have K-band magnitudes of K=18.1-20.1 and
separations from the guide stars of 4-20" and hence are very well-suited to
adaptive optics studies to investigate their morphologies and spectral
properties on sub-kpc scales. We provide coordinates and JHK photometry for all
catalogued objects.
