Harold Corwin

Barnard got the wrong magnitude 9.3 BD star when he sent this to Dreyer. Instead of BD+60 596 which is surrounded by nebulosity, "chiefly following", he listed the position of BD+60 624. This latter star is completely clear of nebulosity, and is 9 minutes of time east of the nebulosity. But the good match of description and magnitude for the object make the identity fairly certain. The position I assign is for the approximate center of the nebulosity rather than the star.

In his 1923 Milky Way Atlas, he not only has the star correctly identified, but notes another nebulous star about 5 arcmin to the north. I have listed a position for that star and nebula, too.

This whole region is a part of the IC 1848 complex (which see).

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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