NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 5963 24" (7/8/13): at 375x appeared fairly bright, fairly large, oval 4:3 SW-NE. Dominated by a large bright core with a much fainter halo that quickly dims to a very low surface brightness. Two mag 13/14.4 stars just off the southeast side are collinear with the core and a mag 15.8 star 2' NW is also on this line. First in the large KTG 63 trio with NGC 5965 9' NNE and NGC 5971 19' ESE. A couple of very faint galaxies are close; PGC 3848996, 2.2' E, was extremely faint (V = 16.2-16.3) and small, round, 8" diameter. PGC 214388, 3' NNW, appeared very faint (V = 15.9), very small, elongated 2: 1 ~E-W, 15"x8". 17.5" (5/22/93): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, brighter core. Collinear with a mag 13 star 0.9' SSE and a mag 14 star 1.5' SSE of center. First in the NGC 5965 group with NGC 5965 8' NNE and NGC 5969 13' SE.