Stephane Javelle discovered IC 1170 = J. 1-370 on 27 Jun 1892.

400/500mm - 17.5" (5/13/88): extremely faint and small, elongated E-W, required averted vision. Located just 1.0' W of the NGC 6041A/B double system and 2.0' SSE of NGC 6040A/B in the core of AGC 2151.

17.5" (3/23/85): at visual threshold, extremely small. Just visible momentarily 0.9' W of NGC 6041.

600/800mm - 24" (6/4/16): at 322x; very faint, small, elongated 3:1 E-W, 20"x6". Located 1.0' of the double system NGC 6041 in the central region of AGC 2151.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb