Harold Corwin

IC 1115 is a double star, identified by its proximity to a considerably brighter star about 5 arcmin to the southeast. Otherwise, we might be tempted to take MCG -01-39-005 as the IC object. It, however, has no brighter star to the southeast which would have been in Swift's field of view.

The identity, first suggested by Herbert Howe (in MNRAS 58, 515, 1898) who measured and described the double as we see it today on the sky surveys, is therefore pretty certain.

There is coincidentally a very faint background galaxy close to the stars, but even Howe, careful observer that he was, could not have dug it out: it is around 17th magnitude.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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