Delisle Stewart discovered IC 1576 = D.S. 116 from a plate taken on 3 Nov 1898 at Harvard's Arequipa Station.

600/800mm - 24" (10/6/18): at 260x; IC 1576 is the southwestern of a 3.3' pair of faint galaxies with IC 1578. It appeared extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter, low even surface brightness. The galaxy is squeezed between two 14th magnitude stars oriented SW-NE, with both stars within 30" of the center of the galaxy. The pair is situated just 45' WNW of the center of NGC 253! The redshift is of IC 1576 is over twice that of IC 1578, so this is not a physical pair.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb