Galaxy Morphology from NICMOS Parallel Imaging

We present high-resolution Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject Spectrometer images of random fields obtained in parallel to other Hubble Space Telescope observations. We present galaxy number counts reaching H 1.6 =24. The H 1.6 -band galaxy counts show good agreement with the deepest I - and K -band counts obtained from ground-based data. We present the distribution of galaxies with morphological type to H 1.6 <23. We find relatively fewer irregular galaxies compared with an I -band sample from the Hubble Deep Field, which we attribute to their blue color rather than to morphological K -corrections. We conclude that the irregulars are intrinsically faint blue galaxies at z <1.