NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 937 is a curious galaxy. In the DSS2 blue image, it looks like a fairly normal late-type spiral, at least in its outer regions. Towards the center is what at first glance appears to be a bar, but turns out to be nothing more than a knot on the western side with the rest of the "bar" being an extended bulge. This is centered a few arcseconds north of a relatively bright, superposed star. At least it looks like a star, and Stephan saw it that way, too. Its image is quite stellar on the 2MASS scans, but there are whisps of nebulosity around it in both the DSS2 images. Even more curiously, the brightest pixel in this "star's" image, on both red and blue DSS2 plates, is on the northern edge close to the center of the outer isophotes of the galaxy. Is this "superposed star" perhaps some kind of extremely bright knot in the galaxy, or perhaps even an overexposed stellar nucleus? If I had to guess, I would say that it is a star. But we really do need a spectroscopic study of the galaxy to say for sure.

===== NGC 937 17.5" (11/26/94): very faint, very small glow either surrounding a bright stellar nucleus or a mag 13 star is superimposed at the center. Located within a group of about a dozen faint stars in a 4' diameter with a single brighter mag 11 star at the SW side 2.3' from NGC 937. Unusual appearance as the galaxy appears set in a very faint cluster. Located on the east side of AGC 347 with NGC 946 15' E.