Andrew Cooper
Aug 6, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 95x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Small, 1' diameter, faint, round, modest core, NGC 7135 visible 18' east, IC 5131 visible 12' southeast

Harold Corwin

IC 5135 = NGC 7130 (which see). This is one of the identifications that Andris and I made during our southern surveys. JH's position is 30 arcmin off, and that for IC 5135 was rescued by Herbert Howe -- who also measured an accurate position for it -- from amongst the rubble of Swift's last two lists of "novae".

In this case, Swift's position is actually not too bad. His note "sp of 2" and position place it southwest of NGC 7135. Of course, Swift called that the "nf of 2", thinking that it too was a new object. For more on that, see IC 5136.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

Harold Corwin

JH's declination is 30 arcmin off. I suspect this is a transcription error with JH's minutes of NPD supposed to read "43" instead of "13". In any event, there is no question about the identification of the galaxy that JH saw. Would that that were true of Swift's "nova" as well ...

― NGC Notes by Harold Corwin

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