Harold Corwin

IC 617 is the brightest of the triplet NGC 3280 = NGC 3295 (which see for another story). Neither NGC position is very good, so Javelle can be excused for thinking he had a new nebula.

I do find it a little curious that he did not mention the two slightly fainter galaxies just following the brighter one that he measured. He was, after all, using a 30-inch refractor, larger than the 26-inch that Leavenworth used to sketch the triplet.

There is, in any case, no doubting the identification. Javelle's micrometric measurement falls within a few arcseconds of the nucleus of the brightest galaxy.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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