NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 2848. See NGC 3578 and NGC 2847.

===== NGC 2848 48" (2/20/12): bright, large, oval 3:2 SW-NE, contains a relatively large, bright core that increases to the center. A spiral arm is attached on the west side of the core and it sweeps around the galaxy clockwise, heading south and then sharply bending east before dimming out on the southeast side of the halo. But an apparently detached section of the arm reappears on the east side heading north towards two mag 14/15 star at the NE edge. A mag 16.5 star is superimposed on the NW side (0.6' from center) and attached to this star is an extremely faint HII knot. The combination of star + knot was likely recorded by Mitchell using Rosse's 72" as a "faint knot north-preceding" and it received the designation NGC 2847. A mag 12 star lies 2.7' NE and NGC 2851 is 5' NE. 17.5" (3/28/87): fairly bright, moderately large, bright core, faint halo 3:2 SW-NE. A mag 12 star lies 2.8' NE of center. Forms a pair with NGC 2851 5.5' ENE. 13.1" (12/22/84): fairly faint, moderately large, very diffuse, slightly elongated SW-NE, very weak concentration.