Harold Corwin

IC 2080 is the only one of Howe's third list of new nebulae which he did not measure micrometrically. He gives a position estimated with respect to NGC 1594 (which see) for which he did measure a corrected position.

Unfortunately, he forgot to correct that reference position when he calculated the estimated position for his new object. So, the RA of I2080 shares the same from the real RA as NGC 1594 (a little under 30 seconds of time). Dreyer also did not notice the problem, so IC 2080 has been lost for some time.

Once the correction to NGC 1594's RA is made, though, IC 2080 appears very close to where Howe found it: about 90 seconds east and 3 arcmin north of NGC 1594.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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