DeLisle Stewart discovered IC 4794 = D.S. 535 on a plate taken 13 Aug 1901 at Harvard's Arequipa Station in Peru. He noted "F, S, R, bM."

600/800mm - 25" (10/16/17 - OzSky): at 397x; fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, elongated ~4:3 SSW-NNE, ~36"x27", small bright nucleus increases to the center. A mag 13.6 star is 0.9' SW. IC 4798 lies 8.5' ESE. Outlying member of ACO S805 = Pavo II cluster (1.5° NE of the core of the cluster).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb