Harold Corwin

IC 5255, 5259, and 5268 are three objects found by Barnard, and apparently not published. Unfortunately, some large error affects his positions, and I've been able to recover only IC 5259 with confidence. Its description reads "Neb; D * 9.5 f 2 arcmin". The double star clearly identifies CGCG 515-011 as Barnard's nebula -- it is 2.5 minutes of time east, and 2.5 arcmin south of the position in IC2.

Unfortunately, applying the same offset to the other two objects yields no galaxies or asterisms. Looking over the field, though, I wonder if CGCG 515-013 might not be IC 5255, and NGC 7440 IC 5268. But these are wild guesses, and I do not even feel confident enough about them to put them into the table. I don't see anything else here, though perhaps I've missed something.

(Wolfgang chose a position among a group of 6-8 stars for IC 5268, but skipped the other two. I don't think his choice for IC 5268 is correct -- Barnard called his object "B, S" -- but I've left it in the table, with a double query, for you to ponder.)

So, one out of three. All right for baseball -- but not for galaxies.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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