NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 627 may be NGC 614 (which may also be NGC 618, which see). JH's description reads "vF, R; another precedes which must be III. 174. The RA conjectural, and PD liable to some error." As noted in the discussion of NGC 618, JH has three sweeps over this area. During the first sweep (100), he picked up the two objects noted in his description that I've just given, during the second sweep (102) he found just one object (N618, which see), and during the third (106), he found another (N614). Since there are just two galaxies here, it is reasonable to suppose that JH picked them both up once, and noticed only the brightest on the other two sweeps. But, as I noted above, JH's positions and descriptions do not rule out other interpretations, so this is simply conjecture. As with NGC 618 (which see), Wolfgang's reanalysis suggests to him that NGC 627 is simply an asterism, this time at 01 42 37.0, +33 34 44 (J2000). As with NGC 618, I can't make a convincing asterism of the three stars there, which are about an arcminute apart. Perhaps just the two southeastern stars of the three might present a nebulous appearance. So, I am still puzzled by this object. I've added question marks to my old identifications, and have added Wolfgang's asterism, also with question marks.