DeLisle Stewart discovered IC 4819 = DS 556 on a plate taken at Harvard's Arequipa station on 16 Sep 1901. He reported "vF, S, eE at 130°."

600/800mm - 30" (10/12/15 - OzSky): at 394x; fairly faint, extremely thin edge-on streak, at least 8:1 NW-SE, ~1.8'x0.2', fairly uniform width, except tapers slightly at tips. A 15th magnitude star is superimposed near the southeast tip and a mag 16 star is at the north edge of the central region. Located 15' SW of mag 7.8 HD 177569 and 42' NW of the spectacular globular NGC 6752.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb