Lewis Swift discovered IC 1250 = Sw. IX-77 on 23 Jun 1890 and reported "pF; S; cE." His position is within 30" of LEDA 2565010, though I have concerns about this identification as his description doesn't seem appropriate. LEDA 2565010 is quite faint (V ~15), so I would expect Swift to have called it “eeF” or “eeeF”, instead of “pF”. Also visually only the 12" core was seen, yet his description says “cE". The same night he discovered IC 1237, which he called “eF”. Yet IC 1237 appeared much brighter visually (at least a magnitude) than IC 1250. But I don’t see another good candidate for the identification of IC 1250, unless his observation refers to NGC 6338, which is roughly a minute of RA east. Harold Corwin agrees with my brightness and elongation discrepancies and is placing colons (uncertainty) on the position in his IC table.

600/800mm - 24" (7/21/17): at 375x; faint, extremely small, round, 8"-10" diameter. I could easily hold this faint galaxy continuously with averted (V = 15.1) as the surface brightness is moderately high. Located 7.3' W of NGC 6338 in a compact galaxy group.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb