Andrew Cooper
Apr 19, 2012    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Large, bright, elongated 7'x3' east-west, a star just beside the center, not much structure to note

Andrew Cooper
Mar 2, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Large, bright, a 7'x2' east-west bar, a 13th magnitude star near the core

Andrew Cooper
Apr 29, 2006    TIMPA, Avra Valley, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Large! dim, no obvious core, large halo elongated 6:1 E-W, a 10th mag. star just east of center, some mottling visible, much like a dimmer version of M82

Andrew Cooper
Jun 12, 1999    Pinal Peak, AZ (map)
20cm f/10 SCT

Elongated east-west with a nearly stellar concentration near the center

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

Large, faint, well defined, elongated, rather curved: small star in centre. 1° sf β. L.P., probably spiral.

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

William Herschel
Apr 17, 1789    Observatory House, Slough (map)

Very bright. Much extended. Resolvable [mottled]. 10' long, 2' broad. There is an unconnected pretty bright star in the middle.

William Herschel
Apr 17, 1789    Observatory House, Slough (map)

Very bright. Much extended. Resolvable [mottled, not resolved]. 10' long, 2' broad. There is an unconnected pretty bright star in the middle.

― SEDS website

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