An extremely faint, stellar or nearly stellar object was occasionally glimpsed close to the west [by 24"]. This was probably LEDA 1219013, itself a double system, with a B magnitude close to 17. IC 1370 is located 3.5' S of a mag 9.5 star and the same distance west of a mag 10.1 star, so it forms the southwest vertex of an isosceles right triangle with the two stars.

Stephane Javelle discovered IC 1370 = J. 1-422 on 5 Oct 1891 and recorded "vF, 2 F st inv". At least one of these "stars" (as in my observation) is likely one of the components of this multiple system. On the SDSS, there are a total of 5 galaxies, with at least 4 apparently interacting.

600/800mm - 24" (9/16/17): at 375x; faint, very small, round, 15" diameter. At first I thought it had a faint stellar nucleus, but this a 16th mag star at the east edge. IC 1368 lies 15' W.

24" (8/12/15): at 375x; faint, very small, round, ~10"-12" in diameter. Forms an extremely close "pair" with a mag 16 star [10" east of center], close to the edge of the small halo!

900/1200mm - 48" (10/29/19): IC 1370 is a multiple system with the largest and brightest galaxy at the east side. At 610x it appeared moderately bright, fairly small, round, fairly high surface brightness, 15"-18" diameter, sharp bright stellar nucleus. A mag 16 star is just 10" E of center and a mag 14.5 star is 0.9' NE. Located 3.5' W of a mag 10 star.

An extremely faint galaxy (V = 17.6) was seen 12" W of center of IC 1370. In addition, LEDA 1219013 is a double system only 23" W of IC 1370. Both components (V = 17.0/17.6) were barely resolved at 610x. LEDA 1219124 is a brighter galaxy (V = 16.8) 0.9' WNW of IC 1370. Finally, LEDA 1217822 (V = 15.8) is a thin low surface brightness edge-on 2.2' SSE of IC 1370. IC 1365, a quadruple merging system, lies 30' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb