Harold Corwin

IC 1872 is a group of 4-5 stars -- not a cluster -- exactly at Bidschof's micrometric position. It was also independently found by Bigourdan, but his observation was published too late to be included in the second IC.

Note, too, that IC 1872 is not NGC 1174 -- even though no one to my knowledge has equated them. See NGC 1174 for the story.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

Object Note

The brightest stars are Gaia DR2 240339124277049856 and Gaia DR2 240339124277051264. This is not a cluster as the Gaia DR2 data is quite divergent in both parallax and proper motions for the four stars

The location is 10' west of NGC 1186

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