Harold Corwin

IC 4865 is a double star just where Innes found it. He calls it "A faint nebula joined to, but np, a 9.5 mag star. There is perhaps a stellar nucleus." This is indeed how it might appear in a 7-inch refractor on a night of less than perfect seeing.

ESO's note about this object is curiously worded "Concerns position? of '* 9.5 att sf'", but indicates that its entry for I4685 is actually the single star, not the double.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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