Harold Corwin

IC 2236 is a double star. I have not seen a print of the original plate on which this was found, but Wolf's positions on other plates have proved to be very good, so there is little doubt of the identity. A very faint galaxy or star can be seen between the two stars, but I think that it is too faint to be seen on Wolf's plate. See IC 2262.

I looked at this again in February 2019 on SDSS and Pan-STARRS1 images, and found that the middle object is actually a faint star. It's probably more fair to call IC 2236 a triple star, which is what I've done. Gaia DR2 has all three stars, so my adopted position is a simple mean of the Gaia positions.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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