Harold Corwin

IC 1590 is a star cluster involved in NGC 281 = IC 11. Bigourdan says of it, "In the region of NGC 281, there is in addition to the nebulosity suspected near BD +55 191, a large number of stars forming a very large cluster, without concentration." He gives no position in his big tables, but does have one in his tables of new objects, and in the CR article from which Dreyer took the IC position. That position is about 3 arcmin southeast of the center of a group of stars that Brian Skiff and I independently chose as IC 1590. I make the diameters 6 arcmin by 4 arcmin, so am not convinced that this is Bigourdan's object.

Without better evidence from Bigourdan's published material, though, there is not much point in trying too hard to find this object. It sits in the middle of a large region of star formation, and any position we take in the area will get us some hot, young stars.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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