Dear DSF,
Mailyan's catalog of dwarf galaxies seen in POSS images is probably familiar to most of you, but I only came across it ~ 2 days ago when looking into the Steinicke/Jakiel Galaxies book (Springer Verlag).
The book lists Mailyan 16 as a member of the IC 342 / "Maffei" group. I also downloaded POSS images of all 104 Mailyan objects using data from SIMBAD. There seem to be two cases of mis-identification in SIMBAD, where there is a dwarf galaxy in the field, but a brighter non-dwarf galaxy is marked as the object instead (In my opinion, Mailyan 26 should not be NGC 2523, but the dwarf galaxy about 4' south of it; and I believe Mailyan 25 should also be the galaxy ~ 2' north of what SIMBAD returns.). Two of the Holmberg objects are also in Mailyan's list -- Holmberg I is Mailyan 44, and Holmberg IX is Mailyan 48. Many of them seem to have UGC designations.
Just to "try" out this catalog, I picked at random two other objects -- Mailyan 61 and Mailyan 62 -- that seemed to be somewhat tractable or easy to find. Here are observing reports from last night:
Mailyan 16: Threshold observation
Object flashed in a few times in the correct location. The strongest concentration is just shy of forming a right-triangle with two E-W oriented star, being a short distance east of the right-angle point. Could not hold even with averted vision, except maybe for 0.5 ~ 1s on one or two occasions. Extension was felt only on one or two occasions; it was not possible to discern the size and extension of the object most of the time.
Mailyan 62: Negative observation
May have seen a few flashes in the correct location. Not sufficient evidence to count towards a positive observation.
Mailyan 61: Positive
Very very faint, large, roundish glow. Not as faint as Mailyan 16. Could be held 50% ~ 60% of the time steadily with averted vision. Lies in an empty region, so it cannot be confused with anything else, although an asterism seems to catch attention further north (probably a single star; the galaxy next to it seems too faint.) Exact position confirmed by multiple comparisons of the star-field. (The only other prominent galaxy in the POSS II blue plate was also visible with considerable difficulty.)
Clear Skies!
Regards
Akarsh