Harold Corwin

IC 2528 = NGC 3084. Swift's RA is 50 seconds off, but his note about an "eF D* s" matches the NGC object if the double star is the one about an arcmin to the southeast. There is, in any event, no other obvious candidate, though I have not checked at the positions implied by digit errors. This might be a reasonable thing to do as there is a star superposed on the galaxy that is about as bright as the double. Why didn't Swift mention this star as well?

Swift does mention that NGC 3078 is in the field; it is in fact less than 15 arcmin away, so it would indeed have been in Swift's field of view with NGC 3084 centered.

Carlson labels the star close to Swift's position as the IC object, but there is no double to the south, and NGC 3078 would be out of the field if this had been Swift's object.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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