NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6737 is another of JH's clusters nearly lost against the bright Milky Way background on the modern sky surveys. His position refers to SAO 162109, though the cluster itself is centered about an arcminute east of the star. Wolfgang followed Andris in ESO-B and chose a somewhat larger clump of stars about 10 arcminutes on east. This is also possible, though JH's position -- unless faulty -- and smaller size rule it out as a candidate.

===== NGC 6737 18" (7/21/04): at 115x, ~30 stars are visible in an 8' diameter including two mag 8.5-9 stars and a wide pair of mag 10.5 stars. The majority of the stars are 13th-14th magnitude including a group of faint stars to the north of the eastern mag 8.5 star. There is also a group of stars following this brighter star and trailing to the east. Not impressive but stands out reasonably well at low magnification.