Harold Corwin

IC 1465, like so many of Bigourdan's "novae," is actually an asterism. In this case, it is a double star about two arcmin southwest of NGC 7468. Bigourdan actually used N7468 as his comparison object on one of the two nights that he measured I1465. So, Wolfgang's suggestion in his earliest list that I1465 = N7468 is wrong. Similarly, my earlier surmise that this is a triple star -- the northeastern being a close blended double -- is also wrong. The POSS2 red and blue plates, the Pan-STARRS1 images, and the SDSS image show only two stars here.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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