NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 5319. Lord Rosse's sketch and description are exact. They unambiguously point to the faint galaxy north following NGC 5318 as the nova; this is "C" in the sketch. "B" -- NGC 5318 -- is shown as three separate nebulae, all of which exist just where Lord Rosse places them. So, I've given the two fainter galaxies directional suffixes, though it was just the brightest that WH saw on two nights. The RNGC is incorrect in equating NGC 5319 with "NGC 5318 comp n". Note, too, that Holmberg recorded only one of the companions from the Heidelberg plates that he used for his 1937 double galaxy study. Lord Rosse's sketch also shows NGC 5312 ("A"), but curiously, not NGC 5321 which is actually closer to N5318 than is N5312. This might suggest that there is a problem with N5321's identification, too, but John Herschel's position and description closely match the galaxy. And, as Steve Gottlieb notes (see NGC 5312), WH also saw this galaxy. See NGC 5312 and 5318 for more on this group.

===== NGC 5319 48" (4/15/10): easily visible at 510x as a faint, edge-on streak, roughly 4:1 WSW-ENE, ~30"x8". A very faint star is off the ENE tip. Located 3.5' NNE of NGC 5318. A faint pair of galaxies lies ~3' NW. Several sources misidentify MCG +06-30-095 as NGC 5319. The sketch made with Lord Rosse's 72" clearly shows MCG +06-30-095 and NGC 5319 (3.5' NNE of NGC 5318), but MCG +06-30-095 did not receive a NGC designation as Dreyer may have felt it was part of NGC 5318. 17.5": not seen.