Harold Corwin

IC 1204 is not the same object as IC 1200 as Dreyer speculates in the description for IC 1200. In this particular case, the NGC position for NGC 6079 is wrong (see the IC position file for the corrected declination), but once it is corrected, it is clear that this is a galaxy 3-4 arcmin northwest of the NGC object.

Bigourdan's precise position agrees pretty well with modern positions, and his comment (as summarized in the IC description) concerning the 11th magnitude star following by 3 arcmin is correct. Finally, Swift's position for IC 1200 = NGC 6079 is quite good in this case and pinpoints the other galaxy. See IC 1200, and NGC 6071 and NGC 6079 for more on this field.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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