Harold Corwin

IC 1475 is lost, at least for now. It does not appear in any of Barnard's published papers that I have in my files, so is apparently one of the nebulae for which Barnard sent a letter to Dreyer. There is nothing at the IC position, nor is there any obvious candidate object in the UK Schmidt field of the area.

I suppose it is possible that this is either NGC 7507 or NGC 7513. The declinations bracket Barnard's nominal Dec, and the RA's are roughly 2 and 1 minutes of time too small, respectively. NGC 7507, a fairly bright elliptical galaxy, might look something like a "nebulous star" in a small telescope or on a photographic plate taken with a similarly small telescope.

But I'm not willing to stretch to either NGC number without more information. So, until we can turn up that additional information, there just isn't much more to be said about this entry -- at least for now.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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