Harold Corwin

This is probably a star at Javelle's position. The doubt remains as there is a galaxy (CGCG 157-028) 3 min 32.2 sec north which matches Javelle's description -- and Javelle's offset from his comparison star is -3 min 30.7 sec. Is there a confusion somewhere that I've missed? I doubt this as Javelle found the nearby IC 2956 on the same night, and used the same comparison star to measure its offset, and got its position to within 6 arcsec in declination. Javelle's declination for the star in question is 4.5 arcsec off in the same direction, leading me to believe that he measured the star rather than the nearby galaxy. His right ascension for his object, though, agrees perfectly with that for the galaxy. Well -- put a question mark on the identification. Unless we can find his actual observing notes, we may never know the answer.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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