Harold Corwin

The IC NPD for 1860 is ten degrees too small, while that for 1900 is correct. This is clearly a typo.

There is another mystery here, though. Howe caught Swift's 10 arcmin error in declination before the second IC went to press, so Dreyer adopted Howe's (correct) position. However, Howe claims to have seen Swift's "eeeF D *" at a distance of 90 arcsec and a position angle of 210 degrees from the galaxy. There is nothing there.

Further, Howe has the magnitudes of the two stars equal at 12.5. The two stars that Swift presumably saw are about 30 seconds away at a PA of roughly 135 degrees, and are much fainter than 12.5. Swift's description also says "between 2 stars"; these two stars are about 5 arcmin west-northwest and east-southeast of the galaxy.

So, even though Howe clearly saw the correct object -- his position is correct
-- his description of the star field is wrong. I do not know what happened.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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