Harold Corwin

Another surprise: ESO says "Not found" and assigns the IC object a place holder number "ESO 155- ?023". This is a surprise because just 30 arcseconds north of Stewart's position is a cD galaxy in a poor cluster. While the cD itself is round -- Stewart's scanty description reads only "E n to s" -- the galaxy is surrounded by several fainter objects with a general north-south orientation. The identity is thus not in question. What might be a bit questionable is my inclusion of four of the nearby companions in the IC number. I suspect that they are blended with the cD on the Bruce plate that Stewart examined, but we really do need to see the plate to be sure.

Looking at this again, I am suggesting that the object I've labeled "I1917s" could well be a star. It is the only one of the five objects here that does not have an entry in the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog, and it appears stellar on the DSS2 images. Even if it is a star, however, it seems to be a part of the image that Stewart examined on the Bruce plate. We really do need to get a look at that plate.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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