Harold Corwin

IC 2974 pretty clearly also carries the number IC 2975, which see.

Well, probably not. See the update to IC 2975.

Not so incidentally, Swift's description of the star field around IC 2974 is accurate: "eeeF, vS, lE, ray; in vacancy, 4 F sts in line s; 1 B and 3 F sts n." There are couple of other fairly bright stars in his field that he might have picked up, but the main ones in his line south and the four to the north are certainly there. Note, too, that the apparently inconsistent description of the shape of the nebula "lE, ray" is probably a transcription or typographical error in Swift's big 11th list in AN 3517, and in his MN second Lowe list. In the PASP version of the second Lowe list, the shape is described as "eE, a ray". This makes more sense.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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