NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

===== NGC 1986 24" (4/7/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 260x, this LMC globular appeared very bright, fairly large, round, at least 2' diameter, with a bright core and several faint stars resolved. At 346x, at least a couple of dozen stars were resolved in the fainter halo and over the disc. There is a brighter elongated bar in the central portion (reminiscent of M4). Located 7.5' NE of a mag 8 star (HD 36598) near the southeast end of the LMC's central bar. A very faint cluster, H-S 307 lies 4.8' NNE and a very small trio of clusters, NGC 1969, 1971 and 1972 lies ~9' NW. NGC 1959 is a bit further away at 11' WNW with NGC 1950 continuing on the same line 16.5' WNW. All of these clusters are visible in the same 30' field of the 13mm Ethos at 200x. In addition, a number of clusters, including H-S 327, S-L 519, S-L 535 and NGC 2016 are nearly on a line extending the east!