Harold Corwin

IC 973 = NGC 5467 and IC 974 are both stars near NGC 5468. They were found by Bigourdan while he was trying to recover the three "nebulae" seen by Tempel near NGC 5468. Bigourdan somehow became a bit confused by the field, so did not realize immediately that one of his "novae" (IC 973) was the same star that he took to be NGC 5467. He published it in his first Comptes Rendus list, so it got an IC number. He caught the identity later when he was preparing his complete observations for publication. See NGC 5465 for more.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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