Harold Corwin

There is another somewhat brighter galaxy about an arcmin to the north-northwest that has sometimes been taken as IC 3335. However, not only is Wolf's position precisely on the fainter object, the brighter one appears stellar on the contact print of Wolf's original plate. The fainter one is just barely there on the print, and there appears to be a defect covering part of it. Perhaps the brighter object is Wolf's intended one and he has some small measuring error or reduction mistake that led him to a wrong position.

By the way, in spite of my mistaken earlier belief that IC 3335 itself is a star, the DSS2 images are clearly elongated and show it to be a very compact galaxy. In the SDSS, both galaxies have essentially the same redshift, so they form a physical pair.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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