Harold Corwin

Here is an interesting case where Javelle may have used two comparison stars, almost certainly by mistake, for measuring one galaxy. The brighter star is his nominal one, BD+35 1972, but there is a companion star of almost the same brightness about 8.5 seconds preceding and 1' 20" south. He would also have had to make another mistake in the sign of his declination offset, but bear with me for another paragraph.

If Javelle used the BD star for his declination measurement (and made the sign error), and the companion star for his RA measurement, then his reduced position falls within five arcsec of NPM1G +34.0149. The galaxy is bright enough that he could have seen it, and he did sweep over the area on the night in question (25 April 1903; see IC 2459), so I'm listing the Lick galaxy as a possible match given the near-coincidence of the positions -- after assuming these two errors.

His description is not a very good match, though: "F" and "S" are all right, but "dif" and "r" are not. Still, I've seen this kind of thing on other of his galaxies, so these two mismatches are not the deal-killers that they first appear.

Also, Javelle has many other mistakes in his published observations in this part of his table (see e.g. IC 2447, IC 2449, IC 2450, IC 2455), so I am not surprised that this object, too, might have mistakes.

All in all, this makes at least a half-baked case for the galaxy.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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