NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 832 is probably NGC 1226. Earlier, I wrote about this: NGC 832 may be a double star. D'Arrest has only one observation of the "nova," noting a star 9-10 about 5 arcmin southwest. There is such a star about four arcmin southeast of his position (copied correctly into NGC), but there is nothing at his position nor is there another bright star southwest of it. However, about 4 arcmin northeast of the star is a faint double star. It is 24 seconds east of d'A's position, and just 0.2 arcmin north. It is the sort of object that he could have seen as a "F, S" nebula on even a good night. Lacking any other candidate, this is a possible choice for his nova. In July 2016, putting in nominal positions for doubtful objects, I noticed that if the RA of d'A's object were to be increased by 1 hour, his position would fall within 1.5 arcminutes of NGC 1226 which does have a star of the right magnitude about 4 arcminutes southwest as d'A mentions. However, there are actually two stars to choose from! So why didn't d'A mention both? This is my only caveat. I mentioned this in an email to Yann Pothier; he replied that d'A's fields of view were sixteen arcminutes at 95X and just 12 arcminutes at 147X. He suggests that the further star was right on the edge of d'A's field, or just outside of it. This may explain the "missing" star in d'A's description. So, I'm going to suggest that d'A made a 1 hour error in his RA for NGC 832, just as he did with NGC 3167 (= NGC 2789), NGC 3575 (= NGC 3162), and NGC 3760 (= NGC 3301). I've left the double star in the big table as "NGC 0832?" even though I am now pretty well convinced that NGC 1226 is the correct object. Just covering all the possibilities ...

===== NGC 832 See description for NGC 1226. Here's the description of the double star suggested by Harold Corwin as a candidate for NGC 832: 17.5" (11/1/97): faint double star mag 14/15 at 7" separation. Difficult to resolve cleanly at 220x in mediocre seeing due to faintness of the north-northeast component. Easier to resolve at 280x. Although the identification as NGC 832 is not certain, this close double star could easily be mistaken as a small nebulous object. Located 4.3' NE of a mag 9.5-10 star. Also 2' SW is a wider, brighter pair of mag 13.5-14 stars at 11" separation, which is much easier to resolve.