NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2727 is probably NGC 2708 five minutes west at the same declination. I'm no longer convinced that this is the correct identification, but I can find nothing better in the area. The RA difference is, within JH's usual errors, exactly five minutes, and the galaxy could be called "large". However, it is not "round", but is noticeably elongated. Another curiosity concerns the next galaxy that JH found in this sweep (number 21 on 12 March 1826, an early sweep), NGC 2733 (which see). The RA for that is also uncertain, but JH marks it "+-" and has a note, "[RA] between 52m 31s and 54m 41s" for equinox 1830. This suggests that he had problems of some sort during this sweep, making it more likely that the RA for N2727 is indeed off. ----- I've checked the sweep, where this is number 21. Unfortunately, the left page is too dimly reproduced in the Herschel Archive to be legible, but there is a bold entry "Not in Catal". NGC 2733 is number 22 and carries the same "Not in Catal" entry; it also has a bold entry in square brackets "Query Clock [alpha] how taken". So, the sweep won't help us until we can examine the original at the RAS in London.

===== NGC 2727 See observing notes for NGC 2708.