Harold Corwin

IC 5305, IC 5306, and IC 5307 were all found by Kobold. Curiously, IC 5307 was first seen by Bigourdan eight year earlier in 1889, but he mistakenly recorded it as NGC 7594 (which see; he also saw NGC 7594, but thinking it a nova, listed that as a "new" object. Thus, Dreyer gave it an IC number, IC 1478). Kobold's positions are all good, and pin down the objects that he saw. One of his objects is the northern-most of the line of three "stars" which Ainslie Common mentions in his discovery description for NGC 7594 (the other two really are stars). IC 5306 has a faint companion just north-preceding not seen by the visual observers.

As with several odern casimilar cases, the precision of Kobold's positions has not prevented the mtalogues from misidentifying the objects.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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