NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6748 is a second observation of NGC 6751, with the comparison star misidentified. I had written earlier that it "... is probably lost forever." Not true! Simply comparing the offsets between the object and the comparison star implied in Stephan's second list of new nebulae with those published by Esmiol showed that this is indeed one of the observations of NGC 6751 in Esmiol's list. Those implied offsets (for equinox 1870.0) from the star are -4m 18.53s and -9 arcmin 25.5 arcsec. There nothing at these offsets from Stephan's nominal comparison star, but NGC 6751 is just at those offsets from the star named by Esmiol, "6596 AG. W. Ott." which we now know as HD 178806. This must have been a bookkeeping error on Stephan's part. Esmiol documented a few others, but did not mention this one. Had he done so, we would have known about this long before now. So, another "lost" nebula has been recovered.

===== NGC 6748 See oberving notes for NGC 6751.