NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 1874, NGC 1876, NGC 1877, and NGC 1880 are four emission nebulae and the many bright stars they envelope in a large, complex, star-forming region in the LMC. ESO did not provide separate positions for the first three (and put "N1880" on NGC 1874), so the positions I've adopted come from measurements on DSS, from GSC, or from offsets to GSC stars. JH's positions are excellent for the first two, adequate for the third and fourth -- but those last two come from a sketch drawn on 17 Jan 1838, not from one of the sweeps, so I'd expect lesser accuracy for them. All four of the nebulae and clusters, by the way, are shown in JH's sketch (it is Plate III, No. 6 in his CGH volume), so can be pretty positively identified (but see NGC 1877 for a little doubt). To my embarrassment, I did not do this the first time I went over the field. Bob Erdmann caught the mess -- I had put the position for NGC 1880 on NGC 1877, and had missed N1880 altogether. I've just fixed it (thanks, Bob!).

===== NGC 1874 24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the first in a complex of HII regions located ~4' due south of the bright globular NGC 1872. At 200x and UHC filter, NGC 1874 appeared bright, round, ~1' diameter, even surface brightness. Just slightly fainter than NGC 1876 which is just 1.3' NE. Without a filter a couple of mag 14 stars are superimposed.