Harold Corwin

The position corresponds to a single star about 30 arcsec south of a line of three stars. The mark on Wolf's plate is not clearly pointing at one or the other of these, however, and his description is more apt for the line of stars (not resolved on the original plate). Wolf also noted the brighter star 1 arcmin following his object, again matching the line of stars better than the single star.

However, the single star to the south is only 4 arcsec away from Wolf's position. Given that his mark is ambiguous, I've taken all four stars as IC 3936, and labeled them with my usual directional flags. See IC 3636 for more about the discovery plate.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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