Harold Corwin

There is no possibility of mistaking the identification of this galaxy as Howe has provided a micrometrically measured correction to Swift's discovery position (which is 13 seconds of time off in RA, but very close in Dec). This clearly shows that the galaxy is MCG-01-60-020.

Steve Gottlieb has suggested that the number might apply to the RC1 and RC2 galaxies A2339-03A and B. These two objects are a lovely interacting pair of spirals first noted by Zwicky, later observed at Mt. Wilson. The RC1 Notes identify them specifically as being south-following IC 1505, and they indeed are. They are illustrated in Arp's Atlas (Arp 295), and in Vorontsov- Velyaminov's Atlas (VV 34), as well as being included in MCG (MCG-01-60-021 and MCG-01-60-022) and SEGC. On the POSS 1 prints, they appear to be further connected with a faint uncatalogued galaxy about two arcmin northeast of MCG-01-60-022. While there is no apparent connection with IC 1505, Arp 295 has a similar redshift, so is probably in the same group with the IC object.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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