Harold Corwin

IC 3095 is the first object in Max Wolf's fourth list of new nebulae found on 24-inch plates taken at Heidelberg early in the 20th century. This particular plate, number B717, includes the Coma Berenices star cluster. Wolf lists 272 objects on the plate, including 22 NGC galaxies and four objects from IC1. The remaining 246 are newly catalogued.

Fortunately, G. Klare at Heidelberg Observatory sent contact prints to Wayne Johnson of most of the plates that Wolf used. Wayne has been kind enough to loan the prints to me more or less indefinitely so that I can use them to find the IC objects on them.

Unfortunately, almost all of Wolf's marks have been scrubbed off the plate, so like the plate from which he assembled his seventh list (see IC 2630 for more on that, as well as some general comments about the two plates without Wolf's marks), I have used the DSS in conjuction with the print to confirm the existence of each object on the plate. I use the word "confirmed" (rather than "verified") to indicate that there is an image at or near Wolf's position on his plate. Traces of Wolf's ink marks remain for a few images; in these cases, I will use the word "verified" in the position files.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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