NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2132 may be a cluster centered a few arcmin east of JH's position. That position applies to the "Chief * of a cluster of 8th class of about a dozen bright and some smaller stars." This is just what we see on the sky today. The stars are scattered over an area of 17 arcmin by 11 arcminutes (Brent Archinal makes the cluster much larger and calls it an asterism). They stand out enough from the field that I'm a bit surprised that Lauberts did not pick them up for the ESO list. JH's "chief star", by the way, is HD 40484 which is within a few arcsec of his position for it. There is the usual question about this object: is it in fact a cluster, or as Brent suggests, a simple asterism?

===== NGC 2132 14" (4/7/16 - Coonabarabran, 184x): 20 stars (half-dozen bright ones) in a 10'x3' region, roughly arranged in two east-west strings. This group (asterism or cluster) includes mag 7.9 HD 40484 at the northwest end and four additional mag 10 stars.