NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 4071 18" (7/6/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): I had a difficult time ferreting out this faint PN that is buried within a very rich Milky Way field. It was finally picked up at 76x (27 Panoptic) and OIII filter as a faint, round disc at least 40" in diameter. Removing the filter, a faint star is superimposed on the SW side of a low surface brightness glow. Also viewed unfiltered at 228x which showed the faint star and the disc more easily, though this is quite a faint NGC planetary. The best view was at 128x using an OIII filter, although this is a low-excitation planetary. The disc appeared fairly faint with subtle irregularities in surface brightness and was likely brighter along portions of the rim.