NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 3443. Swift's declination is 8.3 arcmin too small, but the identity is still clear. See IC 884 for more. Even though the identity is clear, the nucleus is not. Though the galaxy is inclined by only 60 degrees to the line of sight, and the central region is pretty clearly seen, there is no obvious nucleus. The SDSS image shows a very short, very faint bar with arms springing off its ends (the structure is the same as the LMC), but bar is nearly uniformly bright. The SDSS has four different positions listed for "objects" near the center of the galaxy, but just looking at the image, it's not obvious which one to take as representing the galaxy. So, I've simply taken the unweighted mean. This agrees pretty well with the position that I estimate on the DSS2R image, and with the GSC3 position as well, so I've taken the mean as being the "best" position for the object.

===== NGC 3443 24" (2/22/14): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.0'x0.5', low surface brightness halo with a small brighter core. A mag 13-13.5 star is 1.6' E. NGC 3454/3455 pair is ~26' SE and NGC 3457 is a similar distance E. 17.5" (2/8/91): fairly faint, very small, slightly elongated 4:3 NW-SE, small very bright core, substellar nucleus.