DeLisle Stewart discovered IC 4806 = DS 544 on a plate taken 16 Sep 1901 at Harvard's Arequipa Station in Peru. He noted "eeF, eS, eE at 10°, 2 st v nr, susp."

600/800mm - 30" (11/6/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 4:1 SSW-NNE, 0.8'x0.2', sharply concentrated with a very small, bright core and stellar nucleus. A brighter star is superimposed on the SE edge and a very faint star is at the NNE tip. Located 14' NNE of the large spiral NGC 6721 and 6' SE of mag 9.5 HD 176085.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb