NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6281 18" (6/12/10): bright, 10' cluster resolved in the 80mm finder at 25x. Excellent in the 18" at 175x with roughly 50 stars to mag 14 including two dozen brighter mag 9-10.5 stars in a distinctive, well-defined outline. Includes several double stars with h4915 = 9/10.8 at 11" on the NE side and a 10" pair of mag 10.5/11.5 stars in the center. Several of the cluster's fainter stars are situated on the south side. A number of the brighter stars are in two strings forming a right angle. The northern line is oriented SW-NE and the southwest line is oriented NW-SE. The vertex is at the west end of these strings. Located 2.5 degrees east of Mu1/2 Sco. 8" (6/27/81): two dozen stars mag 9-11 in a distinct fairly bright, rectangular group of ~10' diameter.