Harold Corwin

IC 1988 may be NGC 1425 with a 50 second error in RA and a 10 degree digit error in Dec. Swift has made both of these errors in other cases, and his description could be made to fit NGC 1425, too (instead of "eF, pL, R; 2 sts near f, wide D* np" it would read "eF, pL, R; wide D* near f, 2 sts np"). He is certainly confused about the date he found this. He gives it as 14 Oct 1897 in the AN summary list, but as 3 Oct 1897 in his shorter List 5 where the nebula is number 14.

While I'm fairly confident about the identification with the NGC galaxy, there are enough changes that have to be made to Swift's observations that I've put a question mark on the IC number.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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