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===== NGC 2067 is a part of the large complex of nebulae around M 78 = N2068. Here is what I had to say about this in 1997: Found by Tempel, neither the position nor the description makes it really clear which part of the nebula he saw. The first position I give in the main table is for a large patch of pretty low surface brightness nebulosity about 5 arcmin northwest of M 78. But this is not the brightest nebulosity in the area. That is a knot about 3 arcmin southwest, the brightest part of a long faint streamer pointed toward NGC 2064. This, however, is much more east than north of M 78, while Tempel says that M 78 is to the south. So, a bit of a mystery here -- which part of the nebulosity was Tempel refering to? I've stuck with the larger more northerly end of the nebula, but could well be wrong, so have also put the southern knot in the main table. That wasn't very satisfactory, so I went over the field again early in 2014. This time, I simply translated (using several on-line translation sites) Tempel's note from AN 2212: A good class III nebula, somewhat north-preceding M 78; it is south of a star 11m, and itself runs arc-shaped following D'Arrest's new nebula. It is remarkable that neither Herschel nor Lord Rosse saw D'Arrest's southern and my preceding companion of M 78; occasionally mine appeared to me to be brighter than D'Arrest's nebula, as I also later found the latter. While this is pretty rough (my apologies), the intent is clear: Tempel's new nebula is an arc of nebulosity northwest of M 78, south of an 11th magnitude star, and bright enough that he was surprised that neither Herschel nor Lord Rosse had found it (or d'Arrest's nearby NGC 2064). From all of this, I am now inclined to believe that Tempel was describing the nebulosity stretching from its southwest end at 05 43 49, +00 03.4 (these are B1950.0 positions) to its northeast end at 05 44 04, +00 07.2. There is a dark patch roughly in the center of this "arc" of nebulosity at 05 43 56, +00 05.3 that I've taken as the position of Tempel's nebula. This is not too far off Tempel's position, and I think it fairly represents the nebulosity that he described. Finally, in spite of what he says, "his" portion of M 78 has a lower surface brightness than d'Arrest's (NGC 2064), so appears to be somewhat fainter.

===== NGC 2067 13.1" (2/25/84): extremely faint, suspected reflection nebula 5' WNW of M78. Sighting uncertain as only visible fleetingly. [It's not clear from my description whether I observed the very low surface brightness circular patch NW of M78 or the brightest portion of the streamer pointing towards NGC 2064].