NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2704 = IC 2424. This is an identity first suggested by Bigourdan who found and measured I2424 on 18 March 1892. He could not, however, find the NGC galaxy at WH's position. Since that is just a minute of time preceding I2424, the brightest galaxy in the area, the identity is almost certain. Dreyer has a note about this in his 1912 paper and in his Notes to WH's observations; he, too, accepted the identity of the two nebulae.

===== NGC 2704 24" (2/16/15): fairly faint, moderately large, round, 0.9' diameter, broad weak concentration. UGC 4689 lies 12' NE, UGC 4699 (overlapping double system) is 24' ENE and UGC 4704 is 28' SE. UGC 4689 is very faint, small, slightly elongated SSW-NNE, 24"x18" (central region). UGC 4699 is fairly faint, fairly small, roundish, weak concentration. A very distinctive group of four brighter stars ("T" or "Y" shape) is 3' to 5' preceding. Finally, UGC 4704 (viewed at 200x) is extremely faint, thin edge-on roughly 10:1 WNW-ESE, 1.2'x0.2', can only glimpse due to very low even surface brightness. A mag 11 star is just south of the east end [2.2' from center]. 17.5" (3/20/93): faint, fairly small, round, broad mild concentration. UGC 4699 lies 24' ENE and NGC 2691 is 25' NW.