UGC 1995 was fairly faint, fairly small, oval ~2:1 WSW-ENE, ~40"x20", slightly brighter along the major axis but no defined core region. A mag 10.7 star is 3.7' SE.

UGC 2005 appeared fairly faint, round, 0.6' diameter. Contains a very small bright core that increases to a stellar nucleus. A mag 13.3 star is off the east side [1.2' from center]. CGCG 388-39, just 2.3' NW, appeared fairly faint, very small, round, 18" diameter, very small bright core, stellar nucleus. MCG +00-07-034, 2.5' SW of UGC 2005, appeared faint, small, round, 15" diameter, low even surface brightness.

Lewis Swift discovered IC 232 = Sw. VII-4 on 15 Oct 1887 and reported "vF, S, R." His position is 1.7' due W of UGC 1994. Dreyer questioned if IC 232 was a duplicate of IC 231, but these are separate galaxies.

600/800mm - 24" (12/20/17): at 225x; fairly faint to moderately bright, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, 0.5'x0.4'. This is the high surface brightness core region of the galaxy and it increased to a sharp stellar nucleus! I suspected a very low surface brightness halo, but difficult to confirm. BAL 956, a 3.1" equal pair of 12th magnitude stars, lies 3.5' ESE. Brightest in a group (WBL 074) that includes IC 231 19' WSW, UGC 1995 6' NE and UGC 2005 11.5' ESE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb