CGCG 078-078, located 12.6' NNE, appeared very faint, small, round, low even surface brightness, ~15" diameter. This galaxy was surprisingly faint for mag 15.3z, but the SDSS blue mag is 16.1.

CGCG 078-079, located 16.5' NNE, appeared faint to fairly faint, small, slightly elongated SW-NE, very weak concentration, 25"x20". A mag 15.5 star is off the NE edge. This galaxy is also known as RX J1548.9+0851 (X-ray source) and it's the brightest member of a galaxy group at z = .072, corresponding to a light travel time of 962 million years!

Lewis Swift discovered IC 1137 = Sw. IX-51 on 19 Apr 1890 and reported "vF; S; R; 9m * close np." His RA is 8 seconds too small, but the identification is certain as the brighter star is 1' NW. Dreyer made a 30 second error in precessing Swift's RA, so the IC position is 22 seconds of RA too large. Harold Corwin noted this error in his IC corrections list. LEDA fails to label its LEDA 2816978 as IC 1137.

600/800mm - 24" (7/21/17): at 282x; fairly faint, fairly small, round, 20" diameter, nearly even surface brightness (moderately high) except for a very small brighter nucleus. A mag 12 star is 1' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb