Harold Corwin

IC 3886 is another of the galaxies in Abell 1638, with many companions. Wolf's note reads "Ch!! conn 1'n, &&, viF." This becomes, "Very remarkable chain connecting 1 arcmin north, very irregular figure." The print of Wolf's original plate shows the galaxy only faintly, but his mark points exactly at it.

The star and galaxy (I had mistakenly called the pair a double star in an earlier note) about an arcminute north are not connected to it in any way on either POSS1 or POSS2, so the connection that Wolf saw on his original plate is probably a defect. It does not show clearly at all on the print of his plate. See IC 3636 for more about that plate.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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