NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 7078 17.5" (8/5/94): extremely bright with a halo extending to about 11' diameter and a 3' very bright core containing a 30" intense nucleus. The halo is very highly resolved into fairly bright stars although the stars are irregularly scattered in the outer halo. The halo extends 85% to mag 7.7 SAO 107179 just off the NNE edge of the halo and many stars in the halo appear to be arranged in loops and strings. The core is extremely densely packed with stars down to a very small intense glow at the center. This 30" nucleus is concentrated to the geometric center ("core collapse"). The faint planetary Pease 1 is situated just 30" NNE of center (see observation). 13.1": very bright, very large, very small intense nucleus surrounded by a bright core. Superb resolution down to the center of core. 8": very bright, large, intense core is very compact and dense, surrounded by inner halo with many stars superimposed, outer halo well resolved into long distinct streamers. A mag 7.6 star is at the NNE edge of the halo. Naked-eye (7/11/07): easily visible naked-eye at Lassen National Park as a small, hazy spot just west of a 6th magnitude star. Naked-eye (7/26/06): Located 17' W of a naked-eye mag 6.1 star. The globular was sometimes visible naked-eye as a faint haze to the west of the star.