Harold Corwin

Earlier, I wrote about this:

My first look at the print of the original plate suggested that this is nothing more than a defect. However, as Wolfgang and Malcolm have found, there is in fact a faint star just south of Wolf's position. A second look shows that the image of the star was indeed faintly recorded on Wolf's plate. I suspect that the original plate would show it more clearly. See IC 3636 for more about this discovery plate.

Finally, in May 2015, I found that the "star" is in fact a compact galaxy. The SDSS has an emission-line spectrum with a redshift of z = 0.0215.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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