NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 3774. Amazingly, Leavenworth's position is pretty good for this barred spiral. Furthermore, his description has the bar in the correct position angle, though his note about a 9th magnitude star 3 arcmin "np" is wrong -- the star is "sp", that is southwest, not northwest. But most everything else matches up well enough that I have little doubt that this is the galaxy that Leavenworth saw at Leander McCormick. In particular, his sketch matches the sky pretty well. Curiously, that sketch includes, in Leavenworth's note "another neb or eF * p 0.5[arcmin]". The sketch shows it closer to the bar than that, so I wonder if he didn't glimpse the bright patch that actually defines the southwestern end of the bar. Another option, of course, is that he noticed a supernova. In that case, the date of the sketch, "Feb 7 [18]87" is worth noting.

===== NGC 3774 24" (3/9/13): very faint to faint, small, slightly elongated, 25"x20", low but irregular surface brightness. A mag 12 star is 2.9' SW.