Lewis Swift discovered IC 1811 = Sw. XI-38, along with IC 1813, on 22 Dec 1897 and reported "eeeF; S; R; D * nearly p; np of 2." His position is 40 seconds of RA too small. He confused the orientation in his description as his position is correctly southwest of IC 1813, and the"D[ouble] *" is probably the pair northwest.

600/800mm - 24" (11/7/18): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S, ~0.6"x0.5", slightly brighter core. A mag 14.6 star is at the east edge [24" ESE of center]. A wide mag 13.5/14 pair is 3.5' NW. Forms a pair with slightly smaller IC 1813 3.5' NE. Located 42' SE of mag 5.1 Phi Fornacis.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb