Harold Corwin

I'm not quite convinced that this [PGC 213402] is Barnard's object -- it is very faint, and is closely flanked by two brighter stars -- but there is nothing else in the area that matches both his position (the declination is the same as IC 2196's in his list) and his brief description. Perhaps the stars enhanced Barnard's view of the object. Note, too, that the position offsets are consistent with those for the rest of the group: -2.3 seconds for IC 2197, -1.94 +- 1.03 seconds for all five; and -2 arcmin 43 arcsec for IC 2197, -2 arcmin 30 arcsec +- 38 arcsec for all five.

Wolfgang Steinicke chose an even fainter galaxy-and-star pair a few arcmin to the south. I've left these in the table with question marks though I do not think that they are Barnard's intended object(s). They are even fainter than the objects closer to Barnard's position, and they do not share the systematic offsets in position of the other galaxies in Barnard's group.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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