NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 3854 = NGC 3865. Here is another case where neither discovery position is particularly good. Common's is his usual estimate, while Leavenworth's RA is, as usual, just bad. Leavenworth also, rather unusually, has a 10 arcmin Dec error as well for this galaxy. Unfortunately, there is no surviving sketch. But there is still no mistaking the object. His description is appropriate for the brighter central part of the galaxy, and his estimate of the position angle (70 degrees) is not too far off. Finally, he has another nebula in the correct relative position (assuming the 10 arcmin error is fixed), and that nebula (N3858 = N3866, which see) also bears an appropriate description. Finally, while Brian suggested that the object he measured the position for is the "brighter of two merged", the second object looks very much like a superposed star on the DSS2 and 2MASS images. However, Allan Sandage, in the Carnegie Atlas, agrees with Brian. Radial velocities will tell us for sure.

===== NGC 3854 See observing notes for NGC 3865.