NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6211 and NGC 6213 are the southern-most two of a line of four galaxies stretching southwest to northeast (the other two are CGCG 299-018 and -019, not in NGC). Swift found these in June of 1887 and sent them directly to Dreyer who included them in NGC from Swift's letters. Swift published the discoveries a few years later in his 9th list. His RAs are 15-20 seconds of time too small, but Dreyer included Bigourdan's corrections in the IC2 notes. Bigourdan's published RAs are within two seconds for each object, and his offsets, if re-reduced using a modern position for his reference star, would agree with modern positions.

===== NGC 6211 18" (6/23/09): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated 5:4 SW-NE, 1.2'x1.0', well concentrated. First of four in a string of the galaxies to the NE (identical redshifts) with NGC 6213 2.2' NE. 17.5" (6/18/88): fairly faint, small, round, bright compact core. 17.5" (6/20/87): moderately bright, moderately large, almost round, strong bright core, stellar nucleus. Brightest in chain of four with NGC 6213 2.2' NE.