NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 7774. Swift says of this double interacting system, "eF, S, R; in center of equilatoral triangle of 3 sts; D * near np." His position is not accurate enough to tell us if he saw one galaxy or the other, so I am going to presume that both contributed to the image at his eyepiece. The stars are all there, by the way; the triangle is not quite equilatoral, and the double star is also the northwestern apex of the triangle. Also see NGC 153 where this galaxy bears on the identification of NGC 151.

===== NGC 7774 24" (1/1/16): at 375x; this very close, merged system (15" between nuclei) was easily seen as double at 375x. The brighter and larger component is on the west side. It appeared fairly faint, fairly small, round, ~24" diameter, contains a very small bright nucleus. PGC 93142 is attached on its east side (the glows seems virtually tangent) and appeared faint, very small, slightly elongated, 12"x9". An uncatalogued mag 11.3/12.3 pair at 8" separation is 5.7' NW. IC 1513 is 21' SE. 17.5" (11/30/91): this is a small double system elongated E-W and just resolved at 220x into a double nuclei but not cleanly separated. The brighter component is at the west side and appears faint, very small, round. The fainter companion (LEDA 93142) is attached at the east end within a common halo and appears very faint, very small, slightly elongated. The separation is just 15" between centers!