Harold Corwin

IC 1463 is probably the southwestern of a pair of stars separated by about 20 arcsec. That southwestern star is itself a close double, but both components are easily see in the Pan-STARRS image. Howe suggested that the pair itself is Baron d'Engelhardt's object, but the original micrometric position is within 2-3 arcsec of the southern star.

Unfortunately, I do not have Engelhardt's description or his offsets from his comparison star, so can't really judge this very well. Consequently, I've left the double as the IC object, but give the individual stars in the position table, too.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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