Harold Corwin

See IC 336 for Corwin's discussion on the diffuse nebulae around M45 including IC 336, IC 341, IC 353, and IC 354. For IC 360 he adds the following...

The position I now (October 2013) estimate on the DSS (first survey, blue plate) is 04 07.8 +25 36 (B1950), while Dreyer's 1860 position in the IC precesses to 04 11.5 +25 54 (B1950), about 4 minutes off in RA and 0.3 degrees in Dec. Careful reading of Barnard's sketch in AN 3253 shows the nebula to be just a little less than a degree south, and perhaps a bit east, of 44 Tau. I put the position on the chart at 04 08.2 +25 32 (B1950), not significantly different than what I see on the DSS1 blue plate. Dreyer's 1860 position is clearly off, and can now be confidently discarded. This nebula, by the way, shows up on DSS images almost better as a patch of dust obscuring stars behind it, than it does as "bright" nebula overlaid on the same stars.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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