Harold Corwin

IC 2469 is one of the largest and brightest galaxies that Swift found. I'm surprised that neither John Herschel nor Shapley-Ames picked it up. In any event, Swift found it in December of 1897 near the end of his observing career.

Unfortunately, his RA is 37 seconds too small (in the AJ version of his sixth list, he has the declination as "-22" instead of the correct "-32" which appears in PA, MNRAS, and AN). The identity with the IC number is, however, clinched by Swift's note of the superposed star just to the southwest of the central bulge.

Unfortunately, too, it is in one of the low Galactic latitude fields that were skipped by ESO-LV, so its optical parameters remain poorly known.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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