George Johnstone Stoney, Lord Rosse's assistant, discovered IC 463, along with IC 458, 459, 461, 464 on 31 Jan 1851. He labeled it Iota on the diagram of the field. Hermann Kobold discovered it again independently at Strasbourg on 2 Dec 1893 (both Rosse and Kobold are credited in the IC). This galaxy is not in the PGC and hasn't been assigned a LEDA designation.

600/800mm - 24" (2/13/18): at 375x; very faint, very small, round, 15" diameter. Can barely hold continuously with averted vision. Located in a group, 1.3' SSW of IC 464 and 3.8' SSW of NGC 2340 (in a line).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb