Thanks Narayan for this interesting image. I have been waiting for someone to make an image of this area.
John Herschel found NGC 3247 (h3250) but his position was out by about 11'. (see below)
Dunlop found NGC 3199 (D332) but his position was out by about 1 degree in declination.
Dunlop wrote "A very faint ray of nebula, about 2' broad, and 6' or 7' long, joining two small stars at the south following extremity, which are very slightly involved, but their lustre is not diminished from that of similar small stars in the field. The north extremity also joins a group of small stars, but they are not involved. Figure 15 " (attached)
I often look at these two nebulae with my 12" dob.
Here are the notes from
http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_n3200.asp
"NGC 3247. JH's position is approximate. Though he has three observations of
this, only one -- and possibly not even that -- was made on the meridian. The
only thing matching his descriptions "Stars involved in evident nebula," "A
decidedly nebulous group," and "There is a nebulous appearance, which merits
re-examination," is the HII region I've listed in the table with its attached
cluster. Brian Skiff identifies this cluster as "Westerlund 1", but Brent
Archinal in "Star Clusters" corrects this to "Westerlund 2".
Brent also notes that Collinder 220 is often mistakenly called "N3247", as it
is in ESO -- and indeed was here until I stumbled across the little cluster in
the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog. The nebula shows nicely in the DSS2 red
image where it is about 6 x 4 arcmin across.
The correct identification was first made by Stewart on a Harvard plate (and
included by Dreyer as an IC2 Note), but his position is about 3 arcmin
southwest of the center of the object. - Dr. Harold G. Corwin, Jr."
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