NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6690 = NGC 6689. Both Swift and d'A found this galaxy twice. D'A, however, realized that his two observations referred to the same object, while Swift's second position was far enough off to mislead him into including the galaxy twice in his fifth list. Dreyer somehow recognized Swift's mistake, so only included one of the entries in NGC -- but he (Dreyer) also missed the identity with d'A's object, even though the two positions are less than an arcminute apart on the sky. Whatever happened, there is certainly only one galaxy, and it clearly bears two NGC numbers. The several descriptions are good, and all the nearby field stars are just where d'A and Swift put them in their notes.

===== NGC 6690 17.5" (6/11/88): moderately bright, fairly large, very elongated NNW-SSE. A mag 14 star is just off the west side 0.6' from center. A brighter mag 13 star is east of the north tip and an extremely faint mag 15-15.5 star is involved at the NNW end.