Harold Corwin

IC 1499 is probably the double star listed in the position table. However, as Malcolm Thomson has pointed out, the faintness of the stars is at odds with Javelle's description "pB, pE [not pL as the IC has it], irr fig." His position (re-reduced) is also off the double by 9-10 arcsec, so we have some doubts about the identity.

Javelle found IC 1495 the same night, and compared it to the same star. Is it possible that he interchanged the descriptions of the two objects? They might fit the sky a bit better if that were so.

In the end, however, that is speculation. So, as there are no other uncatalogued nebulae nearby, or at a reasonable digit error, that he might have seen, I'll keep the IC number on the double for the time being, though with colons.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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