NGC 281 / IC 1590

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Greg this is what Harold Corwin and Brian Skiff had

IC 1590 is a star cluster involved in NGC 281 = IC 11. Bigourdan says of it,
"In the region of NGC 281, there is in addition to the nebulosity suspected
near BD +55 191, a large number of stars forming a very large cluster, without
concentration." He gives no position in his big tables, but does have one in
his tables of new objects, and in the CR article from which Dreyer took the IC
position. That position is about 3 arcmin southeast of the center of a group
of stars that Brian Skiff and I independently chose as IC 1590. I make the
diameters 6 arcmin by 4 arcmin, so am not convinced that this is Bigourdan's
object.
Without better evidence from Bigourdan's published material, though, there is
not much point in trying too hard to find this object. It sits in the middle
of a large region of star formation, and any position we take in the area will
get us some hot, young stars.

So I am guessing this maybe a questionable IC object