NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 4215. There is no question about the identification of this galaxy. However, Schwassmann's photographic position is exactly six arcminutes too far south. This must be a simple typo as his printed differences between the NGC position and that from Monnichmeyer from micrometric measurements at Bonn are very small. Fortunately, though NGC 4215 is the very first object in Schwassmann's list, its position is not representative of any systematic problem in the remainder of the list. There are a few more accidental mistakes, and some missed NGC identifications, but in general, the positions are quite clean, and reasonably accurate.

===== NGC 4215 17.5" (3/24/90): fairly bright, moderately large, pretty system very elongated NNW-SSE, small bright core, stellar nucleus.