Lewis Swift discovered IC 1075 = Sw. VII-83, along with IC 1076, on 22 Apr 1889. He reported "eeeF; pS; R; p of 2 [with IC 1076]."

600/800mm - 24" (7/11/18): at 282x; fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:3 NNW-SSE, ~40"x24", weak concentration, fairly low surface brightness. In a trio (WBL 535) with IC 1076 4.8' SSE and CGCG 105-073 5.4' ENE. The CGCG (background galaxy at over twice the redshift) appeared extremely faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, low surface brightness.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb