Lewis Swift discovered IC 1124 = Sw. VIII-88 on 28 May 1889 and reported "eeF; vS; vE; 2 pB st. in field n." His RA is 30 seconds too large but the description fits. Stephane Javelle found the galaxy again and recorded J. 1367 as "pB, elongated in p.a. 250°, 30" to 40" length, mag 12-13 stellar nucleus." with an accurate position. Dreyer realized that Javelle's object was the same as IC 1124 and noted this in the IC Notes/Corrections appendix, along with Javelle's accurate position.

Swift VIII,#88. 15hr 28m 21s +23° 49'.1

Confirmed galaxy: This is not an error in the context normally found and I enter it only for the historical significance.

Javelle made an observation some 14 years after Swift and noted the presence of a nebula, (he numbered as J.1367), which he measured from the 7.3Mv star DM+24°2874 resulting in coordinates of 15hr 27m 49s +23° 48'.2 which are at quite some variance with those given by Swift as to RA. However, when this object is examined on the Palomar print there can be no doubt that despite the very inaccurate Swift coordinates this is definitely Swift's object #88 as can be established by reference to his description in which he stated "eeF; vS; vE; 2 pB st. in field n," and the south following of these 2 stars is Javelle's DM+24°2874.

Dreyer obviously concluded that the Javelle observation was a duplicate as he not only equated the two observations (Notes and Corrections to the Index Catalogue 1888-1894. NGC/IC page 377.), but he also has no reference to any identity for J.1367 in his IC II, however, he did employ Swift's coordinates which are in considerable error, fortunately the modern catalogues do not reflect this, rather their coordinates are in keeping with those given by Javelle.

600/800mm - 24" (7/20/17): at 375x; fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 WSW-ENE, ~40"x18", brighter core. A mag 15.5 star is off the WSW end [46" from center] and a 16th mag star is at the NE flank. Located 7' SSW of mag 7.6 HD 138266 and 11' S of mag 7.6 HD 138214.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb