Stephane Javelle discovered IC 1309 = J. 1-385 on 26 Aug 1892. His position is accurate.

600/800mm - 24" (6/22/17): at 375x; faint to fairly faint, fairly small, round, 24" diameter, low nearly even surface brightness. Located in eastern Sagittarius, 7' N of mag 7.6 HD 189926. The listed PGC magnitude of 13.6 is too bright (HyperLeda gives B = 15.06 ± 0.5).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb