NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6222 = NGC 6259, and not NGC 6216 as I had supposed earlier. Here is what I had to say when I went over the field in 1999: JH recorded the cluster on four different sweeps. On three of those (which led to NGC 6216), his RA is accurate. However, the fourth sweep (for NGC 6222 on 3 June 1834) has the RA 1 min 20 sec following; the NPD is the same. The description for N6222 fits N6216, and there is only a Milky Way star field at N6222's position. The identification, adopted in RNGC and ESO, is pretty sure. Checking the sweep, I find that JH miscopied the RA into his RA-ordered Register -- the actual RA from Sweep 455 on 3 June 1834 is 16 48 32.1 (1830) rather than the 16 38 32.1 that appeared in CGH. This means that NGC 6222 is actually identical with NGC 6259. JH actually noticed this sometime after he had submitted the CGH manuscript for typesetting. He included the observation for NGC 6259 which became NGC 6222 in his table of "Omitted Observations" with the correct RA, and the correct h number 3660. Unfortunately, he did not include a note to delete the observation under h3650, so that remained in the list and led to the extra entry in the GC (GC 4240) and in the NGC as NGC 6222.

===== NGC 6222 See observing notes for NGC 6259.