NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6262 is another of Swift's missing objects. He recorded this one on the night of 23 October 1886 when he found three other nebulae: N6133 (which see), N6206, and N6279. Only the last two are anywhere near Swift's places, and they show no systematic offset that might help us with N6262. His description is also unhelpful: "eeeF, pS, R, eee diff". Two possibilities are in the area: CGCG 299-039 and CGCG 277-010. The first would require a 5 minute and 10 arcmin error in Swift's position, the second a 1.4 minute and 1 degree error. The first is the brighter of the two, and the digit errors make it the more likely candidate. However, he could have seen either object, but without further evidence, I'm not going to do more than note them as possibilities. Finally, I checked for digit errors at +-1, 2, 5, and 10 degrees, and +-1, 2, 5, 10, 30 minutes of time, and +- 1 hour. The only possible additional object that could have been a candidate is NGC 6370 (also found by Swift and included in his first list), but that has a bright star just two arcminutes north which Swift surely would have mentioned had he found it a second time -- he did in fact mention it the first.