Harold Corwin

IC 765 may be the star 10-12 arcsec southeast of Bigourdan's position. He has only one observation of the object, using NGC 4152 as the comparison object. Oddly, his position for NGC 4152 in his big table is nearly 6 arcmin off, but the position for IC 765 in his list of novae is correct. Dreyer also copied it correctly into IC1 -- but there is still nothing there.

Carlson has this as a double star. I suspect that the second star is the one an arcmin or so further southeast. But this is too wide to have been mistaken for a nebula by Bigourdan, and since he says nothing about stars near his nebula, I suspect that both stars are just a bit too faint to have been seen by him.

In any event, I've put the first star in my position list as a possibility, but I think that IC 765, too, is "not found."

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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