Harold Corwin

Bigourdan observed IC 72 (B112) only once (21 Nov 89): "stellar object, probably nebulous" at 347deg, 2arcmin from the bright star. On the second night, (6 Dec 1898), he notes "Object only suspected" and gives no measures or even estimates of its position. There is a faint star at 5deg, 1.3 arcmin from the star, and I suspect it is this that he saw and mistook as nebulous. However, the actual offset is rather far from his estimated place (especially the position angle), so I don't place much weight in this identification. Nevertheless, I list the star's position under the IC number in the main table. There is nothing else within a reasonable distance of his estimated position that he might have seen.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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