Andrew Cooper
May 8, 2005    Caballo Loco Ranch, Pima Co., AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Very nice tight pair of galaxies with NGC3396, interacting? [yes] both elongated to where they are touching at the northwest tips, NGC3395 is the southern of the pair and is elongated 4:1 northeast-southwest and has a less distinct core

Harold Corwin

IC 2613 = NGC 3395. Javelle got the sign on his RA offset from his comparison star wrong -- replace his "+" by a "-". When that change is made, his reduced position falls right on NGC 3395. His description is appropriate, too.

This brings up the question of why Javelle did not mention NGC 3396 in a footnote. In fact, he did -- but the footnote is to IC 2604. So, why did he not also mention NGC 3395 in the same footnote? He obviously got confused somehow -- the incorrect sign attests to that.

CGCG has this IC number noted as being identically equal to NGC 3430. This, of course, is wrong. It would require Javelle to have made a 2 minute, 5 second error in his RA, and a 1.8 arcmin error in Dec -- the flipped RA sign is a much easier error to make.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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