NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 7005, found by d'Arrest near M 73, is nothing more than three 10th- magnitude stars, with a handful of fainter ones scattered around. D'Arrest questions whether there is nebulosity accompanying the stars -- there isn't, at least on the sky survey plate scanned for the DSS. This is one of d'A's few "novae" that is not included in his 1867 monograph, instead appearing only in AN 997 (1855). Dreyer included it in his GC Supplement. The position I've adopted is a simple mean of the seven brightest stars. Still, the stars are isolated enough from their surroundings that they might be worth a look now and then.

===== NGC 7005 17.5" (7/24/95): small very unimpressive asterism of five stars including three mag 12 stars in a 1.5' right triangle and three additional mag 14 stars. Only noticeable at all due to the three brighter stars in a small group.