Harold Corwin

Swift's position is 30 seconds of time west and 4 arcminutes south of a double galaxy [PGC 65378 and PGC 65377]. The southeastern component [PGC 65378] of the double is the brighter and larger -- but not by much -- of the pair, but both could well have contributed to Swift's observation. Both Andris Lauberts (in ESO-B) and I (in SGC) have taken both galaxies as parts of IC 5049, and I am going to follow that "convention" here.

However, it is perhaps nearly as likely that only the brighter galaxy is the one that Swift picked up. I won't argue too much if you want to go that way.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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