Arnold Schwassmann discovered IC 3061 = Sn 274 on 22 Nov 1900 with a plate taken using the 6" astrograph at the Königstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg. Based on a plate taken with Harvard's 24" photographic refractor at Arequipa station in July 1904, Frost described "spiral, edgewise, extends 1.5' at 135°."

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/25/98): very faint, small, elongated NW-SE, 0.9'x0.4'. Picked up with averted vision 11' NW of NGC 4212. Precedes a pair of evenly matched stars [mag 13/14 at 22"] by ~2'. Observation in poor transparency.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb