Harold Corwin

IC 1426 is lost. Javelle's one measurement lands in empty space, though there is a faint, wide double star about 25 arcsec to the southwest that might possibly be his object. I doubt it, however -- he found and measured I1419 and I1421 on the same night, and he puts them both in their correct places.

There may be a transcription error of some sort. Javelle's published offset is +2m 02.62s in RA and +2' 26.6" in Dec -- there are an awful lot of twos and sixes in there. Unfortunately, if he identified his comparison star correctly, there are no galaxies at reasonable offsets that digit errors in the offsets could lead to. I also looked at other star/galaxy pairs in the area, but none match the offsets, either. So, another lost nebula.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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