Guillaume Bigourdan discovered IC 3834 = Big. 302 on 14 Apr 1895. His position matches PGC 43559, a galaxy often taken as NGC 4740 or NGC 4726. Herbert Howe searched for NGC 4726 in 1899 but found IC 3834, which he assumed was NGC 4726. Dreyer gave his position in the IC 2 Notes and modern catalogues (with the exception of NED) identify IC 3834 as NGC 4726. Harold Corwin concludes that NGC 4740, found by Swift, is a reobservation of NGC 4727. See NGC 4726 and 4740 for more.

400/500mm - 18" (5/16/09): faint, small, round, low even surface brightness. A mag 15 star lies 43" W of center. Located 11' NE of NGC 4727/4724 pair.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb