Royal H. Frost discovered IC 4944 = F. 1186 on a plate taken at Harvard's Arequipa station on 31 Aug 1904. He noted "bM, magn 14."
600/800mm - 30" (11/5/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 SSW-NNE, 0.7'x0.4', weak concentration. Located 14' SE of NGC 6854.
Notes by Steve Gottlieb