STF 369, an attractive mag 6.7/8.0 pair at 3", lies 29' N. The stars have a subtle color contrast with a very pale orange primary and a blue-white secondary.

Lewis Swift discovered IC 311 = Sw. VIII-27 on 10 Oct 1888 and reported "eF, pS, iR, bet 2 st, vF * v. close f." His RA is 7 seconds too small, but the description is a perfect match with UGC 2625.

600/800mm - 24" (12/6/18): at 375x; nearly fairly faint, small, round, 25" diameter, low nearly even surface brightness. A faint star (mag ~14.5) is attached at the SW edge. Situated in a rich star field on a line between a mag 10.6 star 3.8' WSW and a mag 9.5 star (HD 275082) 6' ENE. This galaxy is probably an outlying member of AGC 426 (1.6° S of the center of the cluster) and has an unusual double dust lane on the SDSS image!

Notes by Steve Gottlieb