Harold Corwin

IC 348 = IC 1985, which see. Dreyer put this into the first IC apparently without seeing Safford's footnote which reads, "A loose cluster with nebula." All that appears in the IC description is Safford's "vL, vgbM, pB" rearranged into the usual brightness-size-concentration order.

Whatever happened, Safford is right -- there is a cluster associated with this nebulosity. Barnard did not mention the cluster, either, in his discovery note for IC 1985, though he examined the object both photographically and visually with the Yerkes 40-inch.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

Harold Corwin

IC 1985 = IC 348. Barnard did not check the first IC before he published this as a new nebula at the end of his paper on the "Exterior Nebulosities of the Pleiades." Dreyer apparently did not, either, so the object now has two IC numbers. See IC 348 for more.

The nebulosity that caught Barnard's eye on a photograph of the Pleiades also contains a cluster, though the cluster is not visible on either of Barnard's photographs in his Lick Publications, Vol. 11. (Safford actually did see the cluster, though Dreyer did not put that into the description for IC 348.)

Barnard adopted the BD position for the central star in the nebula, and I've done the same.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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