[ZGH2005] XS00676B0-003 , the SIMBAD biblio

The Chandra Multiwavelength Plane (ChaMPlane) survey to identify and analyze the serendipitous X-ray sources in deep Galactic plane fields incorporates the ChaMPlane Optical Survey, which is one of NOAO's Long-term Survey Programs. We started this optical imaging survey in 2000 March and completed it in 2005 June. Using the NOAO 4 m telescopes with the Mosaic cameras at CTIO and KPNO, deep images of the ChaMPlane fields are obtained in V, R, I, and Hα bands. This paper describes the process of observation, data reduction, and analysis of fields included in the ChaMPlane Optical Survey and describes the search for Hα emission objects and Chandra optical counterparts. We illustrate these procedures using the ChaMPlane field for the black hole X-ray binary GRO J0422+32 as an example.