NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 1736. Steve Gottlieb during a recent (2012) trip to Australia, noted that this matches JH's brief description "B, R, r" pretty well, though JH's RA is 1 minute of time too far east (that was first noted by Lindsay in one of his LMC papers; I'll see if I can dig out the reference).

===== NGC 1736 24" (11/18/12 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x, this is a bright, relatively large, crescent-shaped nebulosity of stars, ~1.2'x0.8', stretching NNW to SSE. On the east side, four stars are resolved in an 0.8' curving arc that follows the shape of the nebulosity! The brighter two mag 13.5 stars are on the south end of the string and two mag 14.5 and 15 stars are just north. In addition, a couple of very faint stars are off the southwest side. I didn't compare views with a filter. Located ~9' E of a 2' pair of bright stars: mag 6.8 HD 31532 and mag 8.4 HD 31576.