Harold Corwin

IC 688 was found by Ormond Stone in January 1888. He measured it micrometrically (12 settings in RA, 2 in Dec), as did Frank Muller about a year later (12 RA settings, 4 Dec settings). They referred their two sets of measurements to the same star, and it is those that I've used to re-reduce the position. (Stone has another set of four measurements using another star, but he did only the RA; I've not reduced these, but they are consistent with the other measurements.) The position so reduced is within a couple of arcseconds of the 2MASS position, so there is no question about the identity of the galaxy.

Unfortunately, Wolfgang picked up a fainter galaxy 44 seconds of time further on east and called it IC 688. I did not catch this until I was loading the IC into NED early in 2005, so all my earlier lists have the wrong galaxy.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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