Royal H. Frost discovered IC 3806 = F. 1039 on two plates taken from May 1904 at Harvard's Arequipa station. He noted "R, 0.2' diam, bM, mag 13.5."
400/500mm - 17.5" (5/14/94): faint, small, elongated 2:1 N-S, 1.0'x0.5', no concentration. A mag 10 star is 9.1' SSE. Picked up viewing NGC 4710 19' NE.
Notes by Steve Gottlieb