NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 6817 24" (8/13/15): this double system was resolved at 375x and 500x. The brighter galaxy is on the east side and appeared fairly faint, small, slightly elongated NW-SE, ~24"x18". A mag 15.5 star is close north-northeast [26" from center] and a mag 16.1 star lies 39" NW. The companion galaxy is just off the west side [16" between centers] and extremely to very faint (V = 15.7, B = 16.5), round, only 6"-8" diameter! On the SDSS the halos of the two galaxies are merged and the brighter eastern component is tidally disturbed. 17.5" (8/13/88): very faint, fairly small, elongated ~E-W, weak concentration. A mag 15 star is off the NE edge and an extremely faint mag 16 star is off the NW edge. This is a very close double system oriented E-W, although apparently the individual components were too faint to resolve separately.