Harold Corwin

IC 1243 is a line of five stars. It was first seen this way by Herbert Howe whose description (in MNRAS 58, 515, 1898) is so accurate that I can do no better than to quote it in full.

This was examined on two nights. It consists of five 12-14 mag. stars in a line, at an angle of 0 degrees, the length of the line being 45 arcsec. A star of mag. 14 immediately precedes the northern end of the row.

Swift's position is adequate (10 seconds too large in RA, 1.3 arcmin too large in Dec) for a positive identification.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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