NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2382 = NGC 2380. JH found this nebula in two different sweeps just four days apart (1 and 5 February 1837), but catalogued it as two different objects. Dreyer called attention to JH's approximate position for N2382 in the IC2 notes where he also gave Howe's micrometric position for the galaxy. Curiously, neither noted the identity with N2380, though Howe had mentioned in an earlier Monthly Notices article (Vol. 58, p. 515, 1898) the relative ease with which he saw that object. It was there that he also noted unsuccessful searches on two nights for N2382. In his second note about the galaxy two years later (MN 61, 29, 1900), Howe notes the declination error of 10 arcmin, and the RA error of 18 seconds. But it was left to Andris and me to note the equality of the two NGC numbers in the 1980s when we published our southern catalogues. Finally, I should note that JH has a correction on the errata page of his CGH volume to the RA minutes of NGC 2380 where it appears there as h3079.

===== NGC 2382 See observing notes for NGC 2380.