Harold Corwin

The NGC description placing this "0.5' s N7242" is wrong. Bigourdan states explicitly in his description "toward PA = 45 deg, d = 0.5' with respect to N7242" and his offsets from NGC 7242's position are consistent with this. This points directly to the compact galaxy north-following NGC 7242, and not to the star south-following as the true IC 5195.

One other curious note about this object: it is IV Zw 90 and is placed by Zwicky just where Bigourdan places it. Zwicky gives a redshift for it in his catalogue of compacts, but the redshift in fact belongs to NGC 7242. This is clear not only in Humason's list in HMS, but also on the back of Zwicky's original finding chart where he describes the object: "Neutral spherical compact 25 arcsec NE of NGC 7242 [m_p = 14.6, V_s = +5684 km/sec] m_p = 16.4 (not in CAT)" ("CAT" is Zwicky's personal acronym for the CGCG).

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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