Harold Corwin

IC 2128 is a star cloud in the LMC. It was found by Solon Bailey on Harvard plates and included in his list of the brightest and largest non-stellar objects in the sky. He calls it a cluster with some nebulosity involved -- as indeed there is -- and with a diameter of 4 arcmin. With only 15 stars between the 10th and 14th magnitudes, it is not as noticeable as the nearby NGC 1929, but I'm still a bit surprised that John Herschel did not pick this up. Perhaps with all the other distracting pleasures offered by the LMC, he simply missed it.

Bailey's position is a bit off the center of the object, but it is close enough to insure the identification. The ESO star cluster is just a part of the considerably larger IC object, though the brightest HII region in the cloud is involved with the ESO cluster.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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