Harold Corwin

IC 2141 is a triple star close to Innes's position. The triple appears to be quite bright on the southern survey plates -- perhaps this is why ESO missed it, assuming that such a bright object could not be mistaken for a nebula.

The asterism may actually have more than three stars -- the southeastern star appears to be a merged double on the DSS. This may be a digitization effect, however.

Innes's description reads "Equal to 9.7m, round, 10 arcsec diameter, brighter in middle." This is probably quite accurate for the 7-inch refractor that he was using, but were I compiling the IC, I think that I would call the object "pB" rather than "F" as Dreyer did.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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