Lewis Swift discovered IC 1214 = Sw. VII-83 on 2 Jul 1888 and reported "eF; S; R; F * close p. 2nd of 4 [with IC 1215, 1216 and 1218]." His position and description is a good match with UGC 10323, though he missed the star(s) at the north edge. In a short errate table to his 8th lists he made the correction "omit: 2nd of 4".

600/800mm - 24" (7/20/17): at 375x; fairly faint, small, slightly elongated N-S, 20"x15", stellar nucleus, fairly high surface brightness. Closeby are two stars; a mag 14 star is 0.6' W of center and a mag 15 star [western component of a faint pair] is 0.4' N.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb