NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 7481 is also lost. Described by Ormond Stone as being of magnitude 14.0, very small, round, and gradually brighter in the middle, it is certainly not the galaxy that ESO chose as a possible candidate. That is too faint, elongated, has a brighter star superposed just east, and an equally bright companion galaxy within an arcminute to the northeast. A search of the POSS1 prints around the nominal position reveals no galaxy matching Stone's description. Since there is no sketch, and Stone mentions no nearby stars, we probably won't be able to recover this object. As with NGC 7471, I have not checked for large digit errors. ----- And, as with NGC 7471, I've now checked for digit errors. This turned up a couple of candidates: 1) NGC 7365, and 2) one or another of the brighter galaxies in Abell 2538 (at 23 08.6 -19 53 for J2000). Of these, NGC 7365 is the more likely choice as its description -- by Leavenworth using the same telescope as Stone -- is nearly identical. The declinations of the objects are indeed identical as published in the AJ paper, though the RA's are different by 21 minutes of time. The Abell cluster galaxies are much fainter, enough so that I doubt that they could be swept up by even LdR's Leviathan. So, I've put NGC 7365 in the table as a possible identification for this object. Is it the correct object? I frankly doubt it, but it is all I've been able to find.