Harold Corwin

For IC 71 (Big 111), Bigourdan has observations and crude measures on two nights. On 21 Nov 1889, he roughly measured an "exceedingly faint" nebula at 280deg, 4arcmin from HD 6031 = BD -07 159; while on 6 Dec 1898, he found a "stellar object" at 295deg, 5arcmin from the BD star. While the second estimate is closer to a faint star, I think that both observations must refer to that same star; there is nothing else nearby which he could have seen. I've listed the GSC position of this star in the main table.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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