Andrew Cooper
May 27, 2006    Gila, NM (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

A very faint glow along a group of 8-9 mg. stars running NW-SE, a very faint increase in the background visible to the SW of the group and the brighter section

Harold Corwin

IC 1274 and IC 1275 are both reflection nebulae sketched by Barnard from a plate he took at Lick in 1892. The published sketch (in AN 3111), with NGC 6559 and two stars from Benjamin Gould's general catalogue of brighter southern stars identified on it, is reasonably accurate and identifies the two nebulae -- both are marked "Nova".

Barnard did not give their positions in his paper, so I suspect that the IC positions are estimates by Dreyer. Those positions are 5-6 arcminutes southwest of the nebulae, but the objects are carefully placed in Barnard's sketch with respect to nearby stars, so the identifications are clear.

Brian's adopted positions are for the brightest stars near the center of each of the nebulae. In addition, I give approximate positions of the centers of the nebulae as seen on the DSS2R image. The objects are relatively dim and close to being round on that plate, but are brighter and larger, with considerably more internal detail -- especially in IC 1274 -- on the DSS1B plate.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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