Harold Corwin

This is one of Bigourdan's more peculiar "novae". He has three observations of it on a single night, two referred to a star at 23 33 38.8, -02 51 50 (J2000; AC2000.2); and one referred to another fainter star at 23 33 30.6, -02 59 13 (again J2000 from AC2000.2). The first two observations point clearly at a faint star that I've included in the table as IC 5330. The final observation falls about 20 arcsec away from an even fainter star that is nearly two arcmin away from the one I've called IC 5330.

Bigourdan gives no indication that he knew that the observations were of different objects aside from an enigmatic sentence: "In this area, I suspect other nebulous objects at the extreme limit of visibility." This is a peculiar statement for him to make as there are no galaxies anywhere around brighter than about 17th magnitude, well below his visual limit.

I suspect here, as with IC 5311, that "fausses images" are responsible for the "objects" that Bigourdan himself suspected.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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