NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2036. JH notes in CGH, "There is strong ground to suspect an error of a degree in the PD. It should most likely be 160." In spite of this, he lists the degree as 159. This, then, is the number that was copied into GC and NGC with no note in either. JH was right -- the north polar distance should be 160. Once that mistake is corrected, the object can be easily identified as a small cluster in the LMC. This cluster may also be NGC 2043; see that for the story.

===== NGC 2036 30" (10/14/15 - OzSky): very bright, fairly large, irregular, mottled, brighter core, 50" diameter. A bright, tiny knot of mag 15.5 stars is at the southeast end. A couple of additional mag 16 stars are resolved near the edges. A mag 10.7 star lies 4' NNE. NGC 2028 lies 8' NW. BSDL 2464 = OGLE-CL LMC 611 was noticed 2.6' NE as a very faint, small glow, 20" diameter. A couple of very faint stars were resolved at the east end. The mag 10.7 star noted above lies 2.7' NW.