Harold Corwin

IC 5311 is either a double star northeast of Bigourdan's single estimated position, or it is the fainter single star directly south. The nominal position is between the two, somewhat closer to the fainter star, so we have conflicting evidence.

My guess is that Bigourdan saw the brighter double star (though the companion to the primary star is much fainter than either of the other two in this discussion), but a guess is all it is. His position is not good enough to tell for sure. It may be that this is another of his "fausses images", but that, too, is a guess.

All we can say for sure is that the IC object is not NGC 7625 as that was his reference object.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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