NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2782 18" (2/14/10): at 280x, appears fairly bright and sharply concentrated with a very bright round core, 40" diameter. The core is surrounded by a fairly large 2'-2.5' diameter halo. A faint star is situated 1.6' ENE of the core and an extremely low surface brightness hazy patch is just following. This patch is likely a detached outer section of a spiral arm or plume, caused by a earlier merger event. 17.5": moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated, sharp concentration, stellar nucleus, slightly elongated fainter halo. A pair of mag 13 stars are 3' S and mag 9 SAO 42762 is 8.5' NNE. 8": faint, bright core, two mag 13 stars to the S, mag 9 star 5' N.