NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 799 and NGC 800. Gary Kronk suggested in an email in August 2016 that Swift has his directions switched in his descriptions of these two in his "Catalogue No. 2" in AN 2707. I agree. Swift's relative positions, however, are correct, though his RAs are 30 seconds of time too large. For the NGC, Dreyer corrected the descriptions. Herbert Howe, in his first list of observations of nebulae in MNRAS 58, 356, 1898 corrects the RAs, though does not mention the confused directions. For the record, Swift's entries in his 2nd list for these two galaxies, should read (with the 2MSP positions precessed to B1885): No. Date of [alpha] [delta] Descriptions and remarks discov. 1885.0 1885.0 16 1885 Oct. 9 01 56 19 -00 39 20 eeF; pS; R; n of 2 17 " " 9 01 56 19 -00 41 10 eeF; S; R; s of 2

===== NGC 799 17.5" (12/8/90): faint, very small, round, weak concentration, faint stellar nucleus at moments. A mag 14 star is just 45" E. Forms a close pair with NGC 800 1.8' S.