Truman Safford discovered IC 1427 = Sf. 52 on 14 Sep 1866 and reported "vF, vS, Neb M[iddle]." His position is 15 seconds of RA too far west. There are no other nearby galaxies so this identification is secure.

600/800mm - 24" (9/5/18): at 375x; fairly faint, fairly small, round, 25" diameter, small bright core, occasional stellar nucleus. Surrounded by several mag 15 stars. A mag 10.7 star is 3.3' W and a nice asterism with 9 stars in a 2' group lies ~10' W.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb