UGC 11155 appeared extremely faint, fairly small, round, very low surface brightness. Larger but fainter than IC 4697.

UGC 11156 appeared faint, small, irregularly round, small bright core, stellar nucleus.

Stephane Javelle discovered IC 4697 = J. 3-1402 on 29 Jul 1903.

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/1/89): faint, very small, slightly elongated ~N-S, very small bright core. Forms an interacting pair with UGC 11155 = (R)NGC 6581 1.3' ENE. UGC 11156 is also in the field 7' NNE. A fairly bright wide double star (mag 9/10 at 43") is 5' NNW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb