  We analyze three UV images covering a 100 square degree field toward the
Virgo cluster,obtained by the FAUST space experiment. We detect 191 sources to
a signal-to-noise ratio of 4.4 and identify 94% of them. Most sources have
optical counterparts in existing catalogs and about half are identified as
galaxies. Some sources with no listed counterpart were observed at the Wise
Observatory. We present the results of low resolution visible spectrophotometry
and discuss the foreground 101 stellar sources and the 76 detected galaxies,
both in the cluster and in the fore- or background. We derive conclusions on
star-formation properties of galaxies and on the total UV flux from discrete
and diffuse sources in the cluster. We test for the presence of intra-cluster
dust, determine the clustering properties of UV emitting galaxies, and derive
the UV luminosity function of Virgo galaxies.
